Hi Ean, --- Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Something I have just now thought of that might make more sense. What if > we use Classpath as the standard instead of the Sun VM releases? > > Therefore, > Kaffe: provides: Classpath-0.5 > ORP: provides: Classpath-0.5 > J2SDK1.4: provides: Classpath-0.5 > Tomcat4: depends: Classpath-0.5 > > The only trouble is that Classpath-0.5 is Classpath's actual version and > not some sort of intentional demarcation of features. Maybe what we need > is some sort of Free Java feature spec that is loosely based on > Classpath. I think Classpath is pretty representative (if not > fundamental) for the various Free VMs that are out there. In a way, yes. But different VMs use different (i.e. adapted, partial, old, or straight from CVS) versions of Classpath. So it could again cause more confusion than good. > Kaffe is actually mostly compatible with the JAVA_HOME "standard" now > that I use symlinks for Debian compatibility. It might be worth making > the JAVA_HOME structure part of Debian policy. GCJ and friends could > create some simulation of it by symlinking stuff into a fake JAVA_HOME > structure. I doubt it. JAVA_HOME isn't specified anywhere by Sun AFAIK, nor what should be in there, or how it should work. It's just a part of the ugly java folklore, like trigraphs in C. ;) cheers, dalibor topic __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
