Off-topic: oolong

For those who are interested, the oolong project began as a discussion between Ean Schuessler and I regarding his JFORK proposal. Rather than creating a nearly compatible but DFSG-free implementation of Java itself, I figured that a fork should offer some actual improvement for systems programming

System-wide env. variable (Was: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository

On Monday 8 November 1999, at 17 h 26, the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You say there's no way in Unix to set a system-wide env variable.Still, > since this is about Debian, wouldn't it be possible to mandate in the > policy that each shell would source a common file that sets up env >

Re: Editor for the Java policy (Was: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository

On Monday 8 November 1999, at 14 h 31, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is worth implementing. If you are strapped for time or are simply less > interested then maybe we should look to somebody else. I have enough time (I hope so) until potato is released. And I

jdb broken in jdk1.1-dev 1.1.7v3-1?

Hi all, Has anyone else found that after installing jdk1.1-dev 1.1.7v3-1, jdb fails to run, giving the following error: Initializing jdb... [Internal debugger error: Failed to exec a child java interpreter.] It was running fine before apt installed 1.1.7v3-1. thanks, Mike. -- ? Michael G