Hi I want people to second this wishlist so I can add it.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=163390&repeatmerged=yes Regards, // Ola On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:45:59AM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi. Regarding my proposal on Oct 5 for a common JNI library directory, there > don't seem to have been any complaints that I'm aware of. > > For this proposal to be implemented, it seems to me it needs: > > 1) The appropriate additions to java policy; > 2) Updates for the various JVMs to include /usr/lib/jni in the default > library > search path; > 3) Updates for the various JNI packages to place their modules in > /usr/lib/jni. > > Particularly (2) and (3) look like they could take some time, so I'd be happy > to begin working on this now. > > It seems to me that (3) won't be able to take place until (2) is under > control > since we want JNI packages to work once they move their modules to > /usr/lib/jni. I've done all I can with (1), which is to post the proposal to > this list for review and file a wishlist bug against java-common. > > So it seems the best thing to do from my (non-JVM-maintainer) perspective is > to start filing wishlist bugs against the various JVMs for (2) and to help > out with corresponding runtime wrapper scripts if necessary. Does anyone > mind if I start on this? > > I know the proposal hasn't been accepted into java policy yet; this is why I > plan to file wishlist bugs. The reason I want to start now is that policy > updates seem to take a long time (which I'm not complaining about btw), and > given that nobody seems to have objected to the original proposal it might be > worth starting on (2) now so that, assuming the proposal does get accepted, > the groundwork is ready to begin (3) when the policy update takes place. > > Ben. > > - -- > > Ben Burton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, > their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. > - Oscar Wilde > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9tfFJMQNuxza4YcERAgfnAKCJrPAGxMS0cL3YK4w6ItP6I5s5UACfS3bP > ll+dsGA6uQR5jz0OLHo3Irs= > =2CBG > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- --------------------- 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 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
