-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [I do reply to Mark AND to John]
Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 08:51, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > The proposal is to have more package from classpath. IMHO the hack > > would be trivial and I'd be glad to help. > > > > With this proposal, we could have these packages in Debian main: > > > > - libgnujta-java (java transaction api) > > - libgnujdbc-stdext-java (jdbc standard extensions) > > - libswing-java (YES! a free swing implementation) > How complete is libswing-java? http://rainbow.netreach.net/~sballard/japi/ Package Good javax.swing: 64.84% javax.swing.border: 47.85% javax.swing.colorchooser: 90.36% javax.swing.event: 96.39% javax.swing.filechooser: 76.81% javax.swing.plaf: 83.52% javax.swing.plaf.basic: 5.56% javax.swing.plaf.metal: 0.53% javax.swing.plaf.multi: 0% javax.swing.table: 58.71% javax.swing.text: 24.08% javax.swing.text.html: 1.44% javax.swing.text.html.parser: 2.34% javax.swing.text.rtf: 0% javax.swing.tree: 88.71% javax.swing.undo: 99.1% (but take it with care...) > Why does this need a proposal? > As far as I can tell, you are suggesting that parts of classpath are > packaged. This is usually just done by filing ITPs on WNPP and then > uploading the package. Or file RFPs if you don't want to do the work > yourself. $ dpkg -l classpath [...] ii classpath 0.05-1 GNU Classpath - clean room standard Java lib $ jar tvf /usr/share/classpath/glibj.zip | grep javax.swing | wc -l 389 $ jar tvf /usr/share/classpath/glibj.zip | grep javax.transaction | wc -l 17 $ jar tvf /usr/share/classpath/glibj.zip | grep javax.sql | wc -l 14 > I fully agree with getting more parts of classpath into Debian though, > particularly libxmlj which I need for the latest gjdoc :) I agree with you but that's not the idea! The classes I want ARE in classpath. And John DO package the whole classpath and it's the latest version available. Mark, you're talking about classpathx (eXtensions). I ITP'ed gnujaxp and I'll see if I have some times to do libxmlj. I also would like to see the servlet api, the gnu crypto and the mail api... > Another major boost to java in debian would be to get ant moved to > main - I think it's possible, but would need a little work. Yes, I think it would be a very good idea and ant is not a unique case! junit is not free due to swing... John Leuner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 08:51, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Why are the classes not useable ... ? Because it's not compatible with the java-policy. The classes are not in a jar file and they are not in /usr/share/java. So people should put in their classpath /usr/share/classpath/glibj.zip... with all the classes, not only the jta, jdbc-ext or swing. > > - libgnujta-java (java transaction api) > > - libgnujdbc-stdext-java (jdbc standard extensions) > > - libswing-java (YES! a free swing implementation) > > So you propose that the these new packages will be generated from the > classpath release? As you can see sooner in this mail, these classes are already in your package! :-) > The first two are just APIs (am I right?), and the second one is all > the swing code. The first two api's are importants to close wnpp bugs I reported last week (#188156: ITP: libjta-java-doc, #188158: ITP: libjta-java, #188196: ITP: libjdbc-stdext-java). They will be needed by libcommons-dbcp-java (#188574: ITP: libcommons-dbcp-java) which is a library that can be used in tomcat for database pooling. I think these API's are also used in JBoss... They are available in j2sdk1.4 (but not the 1.3 and I do not have the 1.4 on my powerpc :-( ) > I didn't think that classpath had anything close to a complete swing > implementation. Do you just want the swing classes to be able to > compile other packages against the swing api? 1- we can use the classpath's swing implementation to compile, that would be good in a lot of cases but as you said, it's half the problem. 2- the classes are already in classpath, so why not have an 'explicit' swing package? 3- can we imagine debian people 'apt-get source classpath' and help adding patches to swing? just joking :-) > > I think if we can do that, some libraries can leave contrib to > > main! :-) > > > > It's my first proposal so I do not know where we go from here? A > > vote? John what do you think? > > I don't think we need a vote, if anyone has objections or better > suggestions I'm sure they will tell us. And I can help. > John Leuner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You live in Congo (Zaïre)? - -- arnaud @ home -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE+nG+a4vzFZu62tMIRAjNsAKC4niQYtAdRYj6znNflvY5X4rRsGACfdy3b HoJIKmCGki1ACM2p3ZcHE4I= =KWsU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
