Hallo Ben * Ben Burton wrote: >Since the proposed policy mandates that programs use both these scripts >(section 2.6), I would really like to see working implementations of >each of these *before* we look at making this proposal into policy.
A first java-config script is already online: http://www.katzien.de/debian/java/ It's not ready and doe not reflect the latest proposal. I will do the findjava script either today or tomorrow. >I'm not sure I follow here. So if I know my app works with kaffe and >gij, and I depend on kaffe and gij, I'm not allowed to simply do >something like: [...] >but rather I am forced to go through this findjava script? Yes: The findjava script will let you *overwrite* your 'known working VMs' and will let the user choose one default VM, which will be used, when it is include in your list of 'known working VMs'. >> The /usr/bin/java-config programm should be used to setup the >> classpath. >Again, if my app provides its own JAR and requires nothing else, I'm not >allowed to simply > export CLASSPATH=/path/to/my/jar >but rather I am forced to go through java-config? In this case you don't need that. Somwhere further down I wrote 'apps may use the java-config system to setup their classpath' (or so, I'm in a hurry). Maybe it should be reworded to: |If you need jars outside of your own package, the java-config programm |should be used to setup the classpath. I'm not a english native speaker, so maybe you could find a better wording for that. I would appreceate that very much! >What do you mean precisely, state this at runtime? And what do you mean >"need to" - is this must, should or may? I personally would propose >this as a "may" - to mandate that programs output what is essentially >debugging information seems a bit much to me. 'need to' ist not a 'must' or 'should'. But this is usually the first answer I reply to every bugreport... In my latest internal, I simple output that to the console as usually every bugreporter sends me that bits. Jan -- Jan Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Wer nicht fragt, bleibt dumm."
