On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:09:42AM -0500, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > After pondering the kaffe package, the Debian Java FAQ, and the BTS for a > while, I still have a number of questions, and hope this list can provide > answers or advice. > > Why doesn't kaffe have the compiler (kjc) included in it?
The Kopi compiler is not part of the Kaffe project directly but merely distributed with it. KJC is a project unto itself and should be packaged as such. Someone wrote me about their intent to package KJC but I don't know the status of that. > Why is /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/kjc in the kaffe package, but the jar file it > seems to depend on, (kjc.jar) is not? > > Ditto for /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/kopi. Sloppy work on my part. > If kaffe has no binaries in /usr/bin, then how is it distinguished from > a library package? If not, then why isn't it called something like > kaffe-dev? /usr/bin/kaffe is in /usr/bin, the rest of the binaries are hooked up via the alternatives mechanism. I guess I could put everything in /usr/bin as "kaffe-java, kaffe-jar, ... etc ..." and then hook the alternatives to those but I don't see much sense in that. > Why are the binaries for kaffe not in /usr/bin? Is it because there > are no man pages for the individual binaries (except kaffe itself)? See above. > To be conformant with Debian Java policy, is it necessary to make links > between the real locations of the jar files in the kaffe package and > /usr/share/java? I don't know. Really Klasses.zip isn't useful for anything except Kaffe so I don't think its really a "share/java" type of thing. > The kaffe source package has a number of options to support a kaffe > installation that coexists with a javasoft installation, i.e., one can > add modify the names of all of the kaffe binaries using > --program-prefix, --program-suffix, --program-transform-name. > Is it not desirable to use these? I haven't ever tried to use these. If you outline your thinking I'll try to take a look at it. -- __________________________________________________________________ Ean Schuessler A guy running Linux Brainfood, Inc. A company running Linux *** WARNING: This signature may contain jokes.
