[CC me please] On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Barry Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/6/12 5:35 AM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: >> >> Le lundi 05 mars 2012 à 12:36 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit : >>> >>> [CC me please] >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I could not find any reference for javaws and/or jnlp in the debian >>> policy manual. Has anyone any experience with distributing .jnlp >>> within debian package ? What is the jnlp location ? What is the helper >>> script (javaws helper) ? >> >> I am not sure we have such things. >> It would be nice if you could write a draft for the policy about this >> subject ? >> >> Sylvestre >> >> > > Here are a few observations around this topic based on my years of Java > development and my Debian involvement: > > 1.) javaws and jnlp has pretty much always required the full non-free JRE, I > don't think it was ever a thought to package a Java Web Start application in > main, much less develop guidelines for it. > > 2.) Java Web Start and jnlp have had marginal adoption over the years and > are considered passé by most Java developers I know and work with. Is there > a particular Java Web Start application you had in mind? > > 3.) Does OpenJDK fully support javaws/jnlp, and in particular the > application(s) being considered for packaging? If not, bear in mind that > these packages will always live in non-free if they require the official > Oracle JDK.
I have no background on whether or not jnlp should/should not be dropped. My only interested is on the pixelmed package: $ apt-get source pixelmed $ find pixelmed-20111230 -name \*.jnlp pixelmed-20111230/webstart/DicomImageViewer.jnlp pixelmed-20111230/webstart/DoseUtility.jnlp pixelmed-20111230/webstart/ConvertAmicasJPEG2000FilesetToDicom.jnlp pixelmed-20111230/webstart/DicomCleaner.jnlp pixelmed-20111230/webstart/DicomImageBlackout.jnlp pixelmed-20111230/webstart/WatchFolderAndSend.jnlp pixelmed-20111230/webstart/MediaImporter.jnlp I personnally use (offline) DicomImageViewer, DoseUtility & DicomCleaner. However I /could/ imagine that some users would want those distributed as original jnlp instead of command line script. Thanks again for comments, -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+7wusz7zu27o8pcvto7bndayq8uuyvenx4m4cesmg5nuzw...@mail.gmail.com
