Disregard this. I accidentally hit send. I am still finishing it. =( On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 13:04 -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: > Attention Java Maintainers: This Effects You > > > This is a recap of an ad-hoc discussion a number of Java maintainers had > a few minutes ago in #debian-java concerning our direction with regards > to including native GCJ compiled Jar files in our packages. > > Brief overview: gcj-4.0 is now in experimental. What it gives us is the > ability to package native binary .so files along side their .jar > counterparts for usage with gij (the GCJ interpreter, a virtual > machine). When these .so files are present (in the correct location, > registered with the correct mechanism) gij will load them automatically > and use them in the place of the corresponding .jar file. The main > motivation for this is speed. There is no JIT overhead involved and it > runs native, not interpreted. > > This begs the question then: How do we make these native .so files > available in our packages to our users. A number of ideas were > considered: > > a) Include the .so along with the .jar in the same deb. > b) Create a separate package for the .so. > > The first one (a) can be discounted because it would convert every Java > package into a binary: arch package. This isn't feasible for obvious > reasons: we like archive space! > > The second one > > -- > Jerry Haltom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- Jerry Haltom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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