On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:47:50AM +1100, Ben Burton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >
Hi > > Well that was fun, somebody unsubscribed me from debian-java; the first I > heard was the successful unsubscription notification. As a result I nearly > missed this. But anyway: > > > I am attempting to resurrect both my Kaffe package and my involvement > > therein. This JVM registry seems like a great idea. What would it take > > to move it forward? > > I've now dredged up the full proposal I initially made over a year ago and > put > it up as http://people.debian.org/~bab/javareg/PROPOSAL.txt . Ahh forgot about my other message. There is already a proposal. :) > What I believe would need to happen is: > > 1) People agree on whether a JVM registry is in principle a good thing; I second that. :) > 2) People agree on precisely what fields should be provided in the registry > files, and whether these registry files should be conffiles or not; > 3) The proposal is put into java policy; When that the 1, 2 and at least started the 4 I'll do that. :) > 4a) The various debian JVMs and compilers add registry files to their > packages, while: > 4b) The registry query scripts are added to java-common and tweaked/modified > as necessary. > > At which point other java packages can successfully start using this registry. > > So. How do people currently feel about (1)? ;-) > > Btw, there was some discussion on all of this back in September/October 2001, > you might want to browse the archives if you're interested in people's > earlier reponses. Regards, // Ola > Ben. > > - -- > > Ben Burton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > How can anyone have an understanding of the virgin if they don't > also have an understanding of the prostitute, the saint and sinner in one > body? Attempting to reconcile these opposing forces in my own nature is > my goal. > - Tori Amos > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9vxAZMQNuxza4YcERAofPAJ99+MhEPdq2iummNgasAmiSnu1R8gCdEHQw > YY3nbejfXeEV2D9i+1L5bxY= > =Fvuu > -----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 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
