Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Egon Willighagen
Op donderdag 05 april 2001 01:43, schreef Per Bothner: > Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I like the idea of a Perl launcher... > > I hate the idea of requiring Perl in order to run Java ... > > Of course Debian can use whatever wrappers it will, but no Java > application *I* manag

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Jeff Sturm
On 4 Apr 2001, Per Bothner wrote: > Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I like the idea of a Perl launcher... > > I hate the idea of requiring Perl in order to run Java ... So gcj has jvgenmain. You can do the same for other VMs-- generate a small executable that invokes the ma

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Tom Tromey
>> The `L.so' in this case should probably follow the naming scheme we >> adopted for the `.so' files that Class.forName will automatically try >> to load. That will make it so that the linker and Class.forName will >> agree -- it won't matter to the end program whether a class is loaded >> at run

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Per Bothner
Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like the idea of a Perl launcher... I hate the idea of requiring Perl in order to run Java ... Of course Debian can use whatever wrappers it will, but no Java application *I* manage will require Perl to run. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Per Bothner
Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think we'll need a way to disable the built-in search path except > for libgcj.jar. I'm concentrating on the default paths, for installed software. We will need flags to override the builtin paths, for example for building libgcj itself, or for building

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Jeff Sturm
On 4 Apr 2001, Per Bothner wrote: > Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I like the idea of a Perl launcher... > > I hate the idea of requiring Perl in order to run Java ... So gcj has jvgenmain. You can do the same for other VMs-- generate a small executable that invokes the m

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Tom Tromey
>> The `L.so' in this case should probably follow the naming scheme we >> adopted for the `.so' files that Class.forName will automatically try >> to load. That will make it so that the linker and Class.forName will >> agree -- it won't matter to the end program whether a class is loaded >> at ru

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Per Bothner
Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like the idea of a Perl launcher... I hate the idea of requiring Perl in order to run Java ... Of course Debian can use whatever wrappers it will, but no Java application *I* manage will require Perl to run. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTE

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Per Bothner
Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think we'll need a way to disable the built-in search path except > for libgcj.jar. I'm concentrating on the default paths, for installed software. We will need flags to override the builtin paths, for example for building libgcj itself, or for building

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Per" == Per Bothner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Per> So to summarize: The builtin search path should be (in this order): Per> (1) each .jar file in /usr/share/java/$implementation Per> (2) each .jar file in /usr/share/java Per> (3) the /usr/share/java directory itself I think we'll need a

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Per" == Per Bothner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Per> So to summarize: The builtin search path should be (in this order): Per> (1) each .jar file in /usr/share/java/$implementation Per> (2) each .jar file in /usr/share/java Per> (3) the /usr/share/java directory itself I think we'll need

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Egon Willighagen
Op dinsdag 03 april 2001 18:49, schreef Paul Reavis: > On 03 Apr 2001 07:50:33 +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > > I've left out versioning issues. If one want to support multiple > > > versions of the same library one could install LIBRARY-VERSION.jar, > > > and install a symlink from LIBRARY.ja

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Egon Willighagen
Op dinsdag 03 april 2001 19:00, schreef Per Bothner: > > Or maybe, to have two conflicting packages program and program-gcj? > > I've concentrated on where things get installed, not so much on how > things get split into package, but here are soem notes on the latter. > For libraries it might be re

Somebody interested in packaging Jython ?

2001-04-04 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Hi, the BTS still holds my ITP to package JPython (nowadays called Jython). Jython is an implementation of the Python language in pure Java, see http://www.jython.org/. As much as I'm interested in the issues involved with a painless coexistence of C-Python and Jython on Debian, I haven't really

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Egon Willighagen
Op dinsdag 03 april 2001 18:49, schreef Paul Reavis: > On 03 Apr 2001 07:50:33 +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > > I've left out versioning issues. If one want to support multiple > > > versions of the same library one could install LIBRARY-VERSION.jar, > > > and install a symlink from LIBRARY.j

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Egon Willighagen
Op dinsdag 03 april 2001 19:00, schreef Per Bothner: > > Or maybe, to have two conflicting packages program and program-gcj? > > I've concentrated on where things get installed, not so much on how > things get split into package, but here are soem notes on the latter. > For libraries it might be r

Somebody interested in packaging Jython ?

2001-04-04 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Hi, the BTS still holds my ITP to package JPython (nowadays called Jython). Jython is an implementation of the Python language in pure Java, see http://www.jython.org/. As much as I'm interested in the issues involved with a painless coexistence of C-Python and Jython on Debian, I haven't really