Bug#363165: [PROPOSAL] drop version number from jar installations
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:23:56AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: [...] > I propose that the requirement to add the upstream version number to > the jar installation and the symlink from the non-versioned name be > dropped. Discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] showed that no one really > knows what this is supposed to be for, no one wanted to defend it, and > it doesn't seem to have technical value. [...] Peter, I replied to that posting[0], and I don't think the discussion yielded a lack of support for using version numbers in .jar file names. Since nobody responded to the issues mentioned there, I cannot see why we should implement this request. What is the significant gain you propose by not having version numbers? The version numbers are a lightweight (though imperfect) means of dealing with the inevitable situation of incompatibilities between versions of an API. For example, when a maintainer is packaging a Java API that depends on the Jakarta Commons HTTPClient version 3.0, they at least can see that the symlink commons-httpclient.jar points to commons-httpclient-2.0.2.jar and have some insight as to why their package isn't behaving properly. [0] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2006/03/msg00078.html -- Barry Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.alltc.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com Registered Linux User #368650 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
gij java doku
Hello all, since I have to use Debian stable distribution on an old PReP PPC computer and have to learn java, I want to use GCJ and GIJ for compilation and as JVM. However, I ran into the problem, that many essential classes are not complete or have different functionality from the sun original and lack methods, that we need for our reading/classes at university. I have been looking for documentation on GCJ for some days now, but so far I could not find any doku, that describes the available classes and their fields and implemeted methods for the current GCJ in the debian stable (sarge) distribution. The GCJ version here is gcj (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) Copyright © 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Please, if anyone knows, where I can find the needed complete documentation of the implemented java language in this above version of GCJ, then tell me. Or can I use another, more complete, free java version on this machine under debian stable, so I can do the necessary exercises and testing? Alles Gute Helmut H. Franke -- Avatar Chat Systeme: http://www.amiculi.net http://pgm.amoris.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
seeking gcj 3.3.5 / gij 3.3.5 / libgcj-3.3.5.jar of debian sarge java documentation
Hello all, sory for posting this a 2nd time, but I think I need to correct the subject line. Now I have made some extension to this message. Since I have to use Debian stable distribution on an old PReP PPC computer and have to learn java, I want to use GCJ and GIJ for compilation and as JVM. However, I ran into the problem, that many essential classes are not complete or have different functionality from the sun original and lack methods, that we need for our reading/classes at university. I have been looking for documentation on GCJ for some days now, but so far I could not find any doku, that describes the available classes and their fields and implemeted methods for the current GCJ in the debian stable (sarge) distribution. The GCJ version here is gcj (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) Copyright © 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. It seems that it uses /usr/share/java/libgcj-3.3.5.jar for all the java packages. There are also a lot of C-header files with names of java classes in the /usr/include/java tree for which I could not find a single mention in a doc file, but that seems not so important to use gcj/gij for developping programs only. Please, if anyone knows, where I can find the needed complete documentation of the implemented java language in this above version of GCJ, then tell me. Or can I use another, more complete, free java version on this machine under debian stable, so I can do the necessary exercises and testing? Alles Gute Helmut H. Franke -- Avatar Chat Systeme: http://www.amiculi.net http://pgm.amoris.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
