On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:19:14PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Michael Koch wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:22:19PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >>elijah wright wrote: > >> > >>>>I am trying to package a couple of programs that depend on IBM or Sun > >>>>JDK (for build) and JRE (for execution). I know that this means the > >>>>packages will end up in contrib. However, I am not sure what the > >>>>correct way to express the depends and build- depends. Can someone > >>>>help me out on this? > >>> > >>> > >>>do they *really* depend on a non-free jdk, or will they run with kaffe > >>>or sablevm? > >>> > >>>--elijah > >>> > >>> > >> > >>Yes. All are heavy Swing/AWT apps. TTBOMK, that makes any free java a > >>non-player. > > > > > > Better try it out before doing such statements. AWT mainly just works. > > Swing is progressing fast. The above statement depends heavily on the app > > you wanna run and it should not be just said to try to avoid free software > > alternatives. > > > > > > Michael > > Point taken. One I know for certain uses features specific to the Sun > JDK (it is for a school project). Eventually I hope to be able to get > rid of the Sun-isms. In the mean time, I would like to be able to get > the pacakge built properly. > > Also, are there any good references on getting Java apps to compile with > free Java development tools? (No, I have not yet Googled for this info).
Most free runtimes provide directly or indirectly a JDK-like environment. So if you use ant just point JAVA_HOME to it. Michael -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
