On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:41:08PM -0500, Ben Burton wrote: > > > I don't see much value in "java2-virtual-machine" unless it actually > > means a complete Java 2 runtime environment. > > > > Our new packages currently provide j2re and j2re<major>.<minor>. > > The idea is that much as I love the blackdown port, one wants to allow for > multiple JVMs that all offer a runtime environment that claims to be more or > less Java 2 compatible (this includes java2-virtual-machine-dummy > representing my-favourite-non-packaged-JVM).
I think his (Juergen's) point is that j2re is simply a better description of this claim than java2-virtual-machine. After all, the Java 2 virtual machine spec is only one part of the runtime spec. I don't think he meant j2re to refer specifically to anybody's implementation (even though it is confusing that the name suggests Sun's distribution); rather that j2re should be the virtual package name. I tend to agree that the name java2-virtual-machine is a little misleading and perhaps silly (a remnant from when "virtual machine" was a hot buzzword). Perhaps something like java2-runtime? Andrew
