Hi On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 01:56:01PM +0200, Robert Olofsson wrote: > Hello! > > I read http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/ > There is one thing that I cant find covered by that policy.
Hmm ok. > I currently develop jmp (http://www.khelekore.org/jmp/) a java profiler. > Java profilers are written in C/C++ and compiled to shared libraries, > libjmp.so for jmp. Many profilers today have a java front end, jmp does > not (it uses a gtk front end). What exactly is a java profiler? A java debugging utility? > jmp is C code only. > jmp is compiled by gcc. > jmp has no binary (only libjmp.so is installed). > libjmp.so should probably go into /usr/lib/ or someplace like that. According to this it has nothing to do with java. > jmp needs a jvm to run (java -Xrunjmp my.fine.Program). The jvm loads > the library with dlopen. But this of course makes it java-related. Does it work with any jvm or just some specific? Actually I do not think this has to be covered by the java policy. > The java debugger also has a similar interface but I am not aware of any > debugger that does not use any java classes. > There probably exists more interfaces that use dynamic loading to do > strange stuff with the jvm.... > > Where to this fit in? In the normal debian policy. We just have to make sure that the java-policy excludes this possibility. I just checked and I do not think it does. Do you think something is needed in the policy? Regards, // Ola > /robo > PS. I cc:ed the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for suggestions. DS. -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
