Re: Proposed addition to java-common

2001-07-24 Thread Ben Burton
I understand your point and I agree that JVMs should work out of the box, but as it is now, they don't. Your argument is well made and IMHO we should file bugs against existing JVMs that exhibit non-preferred behaviour. However, in the meantime - as someone who packages a Java *program* - I fin

Re: Proposed addition to java-common

2001-07-24 Thread Andrew Pimlott
[ Answering old mail. ] On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:34:49PM -0500, Ben Burton wrote: > Hi. Policy states that Java programs must run without specific environment > variables, which can be some hassle when writing a program that works with > several JVMs. Different JVMs use different bootstrap c

Re: Proposed addition to java-common

2001-07-24 Thread Andrew Pimlott
[ Answering old mail. ] On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:34:49PM -0500, Ben Burton wrote: > Hi. Policy states that Java programs must run without specific environment > variables, which can be some hassle when writing a program that works with > several JVMs. Different JVMs use different bootstrap