Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 01:28:01PM -0400, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > Yes and no. Sun has defined the API, which goes under java.* and > the extended api, which goes under javax.*. However, they do define > com.sun classes and net.jini classes, which do follow their definition. > I've f

Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread Seth M. Landsman
Okay, having said this won't be a debian requirement, I'm much more comfortable discussing this at its merits, instead of arguing against unnecessary incompatibility. On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:00:13PM -0500, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 01:08:22PM -0400, Seth M. Lan

Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 01:08:22PM -0400, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > However, are programmers who write this software going to be > willing to do this? I can't see gnu going with gpl.gnu and lgpl.gnu as > their top level, nor can I see mozilla willing change to mpl.mozilla with > all of their

Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 11:39:51AM -0500, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 10:58:53AM -0400, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > > Umm, please don't. This would be wonderful if all systems were > > debian and hetrogenius. However, what happens when I try to use my > > software on a m

Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 10:58:53AM -0400, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > Umm, please don't. This would be wonderful if all systems were > debian and hetrogenius. However, what happens when I try to use my > software on a machine that isn't debian, like I do on a daily basis. This > would make j

Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread Seth M. Landsman
> Instead of org.gnu.regex.Regex you might have lgpl.regex.Regex. The > nice thing being that you wouldn't see anything in lgpl.* linking in > something from gpl.*, because that would break the license. There are > some disadvantages, obviously, but the process of linking is tightly > coupled with

Re: Versions for java-virtual-machine

1999-09-29 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 28 September 1999, at 22 h 5, the keyboard of Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A full Java implementation implements not just the language specification > but also the Java virtual machine specification and the supposed API > specification. Right. For instance, kaffe, which

Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 28 September 1999, at 12 h 12, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the irritating things about the Java packaging scheme is that you > get this functional disassociation because of the organizational boundries. > > In other words, you have: > > ne

Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread James LewisMoss
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:27:51 -0500, "Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Ean> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:37:12PM -0400, James LewisMoss wrote: >> What if I want to release a regex package under the lgpl. Should >> I have to rename mine so that it doesn't conflict with gn

Re: A packaging scheme...

1999-09-29 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:37:12PM -0400, James LewisMoss wrote: > What if I want to release a regex package under the lgpl. Should I > have to rename mine so that it doesn't conflict with gnu's? This > seems like it would place a large burden on different organizations > not to step on each othe

Re: Versions for java-virtual-machine

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .. > On Tuesday 14 September 1999, at 23 h 11, the keyboard of Julio > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can a virtual package have a version (to be set by a 'real' package that > > implements it)? If so, it'd be useful to have java-virtual-machi

RMI interface hashs

1999-09-29 Thread tim
All, I'm working on an Open Source RMI clone - got all done (including JDK 1.1 and 1.2 support). However I need to know how to generate the interfaceHash number for JDK 1.1 style stubs but can't find the algorithm anywhere? Anyone know? Thanks Tim -- Tim Wilkinson Tel: