Re: Content needed for the Debian Java FAQ

2001-11-02 Thread Kevin A. Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically I would appreciate a new maintainer standing up, who reads and > participates in the debian-java mailing list. If anyone is willing to stand > out and do the job (some peopl

Re: Content needed for the Debian Java FAQ

2001-11-02 Thread Kevin A. Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically I would appreciate a new maintainer standing up, who reads and > participates in the debian-java mailing list. If anyone is willing to stand > out and do the job (some peop

Re: Summary of the idéas.

2001-11-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Ben Burton wrote: > Have you looked through the JVM registry proposals that I've posted to this > list? I put up scripts on people.debian.org almost a month ago (with a post > to this list) and nobody has signalled any problems. I remember the thread, but skipped it at the ti

Re: Summary of the id?as.

2001-11-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > I did not choose -version, as some jvms already have that. --flavor has a > > a high probability of not currently being used. > > Confusing interaction with UK spelling. --variant? > --simple-version-string? That's reason enough to choose another name.

Re: Summary of the idéas.

2001-11-02 Thread Ben Burton
> > * Libraries must (?) have the name > > lib[version]-java (where the version part is the necessary > > part of the version, like libxalan2-java, not libxalan2.0.0-java). > > There could be a libxalan2.3-java. It depends the software. In addition, > this means having libxalan1-java, li

Content needed for the Debian Java FAQ

2001-11-02 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
(keep me in Cc: since I'm not subscribed) Greetings fellow developers, I'm currently (not) maintaining the Debian Java FAQ (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq) I just took a look at it today and noticed there is quite some information needed mainly: - information on new Java pack

Re: Summary of the idéas.

2001-11-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Ben Burton wrote: > Have you looked through the JVM registry proposals that I've posted to this > list? I put up scripts on people.debian.org almost a month ago (with a post > to this list) and nobody has signalled any problems. I remember the thread, but skipped it at the t

Re: Summary of the id?as.

2001-11-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > I did not choose -version, as some jvms already have that. --flavor has a > > a high probability of not currently being used. > > Confusing interaction with UK spelling. --variant? > --simple-version-string? That's reason enough to choose another name

Re: =?us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-15:utf-8?q?Summary_of_the_id=E9as=2E?=

2001-11-02 Thread Johannes Lehtinen
(I am fairly new to this list so please forgive me if I am suggesting something that has been discussed earlier, just point me to archives) On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:22:39PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > Also, it may be beneficial for java-common to register > > .jar/.war/.ear files with /

Re: Summary of the idéas.

2001-11-02 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Drop the '-' on the link target. Standard libraries do not have anything like > that. Don't drop the dash, think about: libmp311.jar That's confusing to users and programs. Shared libraries do have .so., but anyway there's no need to copy shlibs religousl

Re: Summary of the idéas.

2001-11-02 Thread Ben Burton
> > * Libraries must (?) have the name > > lib[version]-java (where the version part is the necessary > > part of the version, like libxalan2-java, not libxalan2.0.0-java). > > There could be a libxalan2.3-java. It depends the software. In addition, > this means having libxalan1-java, l

Content needed for the Debian Java FAQ

2001-11-02 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
(keep me in Cc: since I'm not subscribed) Greetings fellow developers, I'm currently (not) maintaining the Debian Java FAQ (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq) I just took a look at it today and noticed there is quite some information needed mainly: - information on new Java pac

Re: =?us-ascii:iso-8859-1:iso-8859-15:utf-8?q?Summary_of_the_id=E9as=2E?=

2001-11-02 Thread Johannes Lehtinen
(I am fairly new to this list so please forgive me if I am suggesting something that has been discussed earlier, just point me to archives) On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:22:39PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > Also, it may be beneficial for java-common to register > > .jar/.war/.ear files with

Re: Summary of the idéas.

2001-11-02 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Drop the '-' on the link target. Standard libraries do not have anything like > that. Don't drop the dash, think about: libmp311.jar That's confusing to users and programs. Shared libraries do have .so., but anyway there's no need to copy shlibs religous

Re: Summary of the id?as.

2001-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:06:54AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > Also, it may be beneficial for java-common to register .jar/.war/.ear > files with /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc, and provide a wrapper script for > running these. This could keep each binary package from having to have > its own wrapper scri

Re: Summary of the id?as.

2001-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:06:54AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > Also, it may be beneficial for java-common to register .jar/.war/.ear > files with /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc, and provide a wrapper script for > running these. This could keep each binary package from having to have > its own wrapper scr

Re: Any unofficial tomcat 3.3 deb packages around?

2001-11-02 Thread Bang, Steinar
Adam Heath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Bang, Steinar wrote: [snip!] >> does anyone know if there are unofficial 3.3 packages >> for woody somewhere? > I have debs, but the config has changed around quite a > bit upstream, so I haven't even gotten to the point of > test

Re: Summary of the idéas.

2001-11-02 Thread Adam Heath
Sorry for the delayed reply, but we all know how life and time come and go. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Package naming: > --- > > * Java programs should be named as any ordinary debian packages. > * Libraries must (?) have the name > lib[version]-java (where the