Re: [kaffe] Re: OpenOffice?

2002-06-29 Thread Jim White
Rene Engelhard wrote: Jim Pick wrote: Here's a little project for somebody. ... I don't have time to look at it, but it would be nice to know if Kaffe could be used instead... Well, I assume you mean "little" in jest. Building OpenOffice is never a small thing (the full build runs about 20 hours).

Re: OpenOffice?

2002-06-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi Jim, Jim Pick wrote: > Here's a little project for somebody. > > The Debian people want to put OpenOffice in their distribution, but in > order to build it, they need to use Java. But their free software > guidelines prevent them from using Sun's version in the building of the > software beca

Re: [kaffe] Re: OpenOffice?

2002-06-29 Thread Jim White
Rene Engelhard wrote: > Jim Pick wrote: > >>Here's a little project for somebody. >>... >>I don't have time to look at it, but it would be nice to know if Kaffe >>could be used instead... Well, I assume you mean "little" in jest. Building OpenOffice is never a small thing (the full build runs a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] JBoss 2.4.7 debs for public consumption

2002-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On 28 Jun 2002, Jim Pick wrote: > Cool. Looks like a lot of work. :-) > > I'll have to give 'em a try (and eventually, with Kaffe). jboss uses java.lang.reflect.Proxy(or whatever it is). It also uses exit finaliziers. Personally, I haven't tried it with kaffe, but I would bet it wouldn't work

Re: [ANNOUNCE] JBoss 2.4.7 debs for public consumption

2002-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Greg Wilkins wrote: > > Adam, > > Sounds like great work. > > I'm the maintainer/developer of Jetty, a jboss developer and a debian user > so I'm keen to help create a debian package for Jetty to fit in with your > JBoss work. > > But I know zip about making debian packages, s

Re: OpenOffice?

2002-06-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi Jim, Jim Pick wrote: > Here's a little project for somebody. > > The Debian people want to put OpenOffice in their distribution, but in > order to build it, they need to use Java. But their free software > guidelines prevent them from using Sun's version in the building of the > software bec

Re: [ANNOUNCE] JBoss 2.4.7 debs for public consumption

2002-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On 28 Jun 2002, Jim Pick wrote: > Cool. Looks like a lot of work. :-) > > I'll have to give 'em a try (and eventually, with Kaffe). jboss uses java.lang.reflect.Proxy(or whatever it is). It also uses exit finaliziers. Personally, I haven't tried it with kaffe, but I would bet it wouldn't wor

Re: [ANNOUNCE] JBoss 2.4.7 debs for public consumption

2002-06-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Greg Wilkins wrote: > > Adam, > > Sounds like great work. > > I'm the maintainer/developer of Jetty, a jboss developer and a debian user > so I'm keen to help create a debian package for Jetty to fit in with your > JBoss work. > > But I know zip about making debian packages,

OpenOffice?

2002-06-29 Thread Jim Pick
Hi, Here's a little project for somebody. The Debian people want to put OpenOffice in their distribution, but in order to build it, they need to use Java. But their free software guidelines prevent them from using Sun's version in the building of the software because it's non-free (so OpenOffice

OpenOffice?

2002-06-29 Thread Jim Pick
Hi, Here's a little project for somebody. The Debian people want to put OpenOffice in their distribution, but in order to build it, they need to use Java. But their free software guidelines prevent them from using Sun's version in the building of the software because it's non-free (so OpenOffic

Re: [ANNOUNCE] JBoss 2.4.7 debs for public consumption

2002-06-29 Thread Greg Wilkins
Adam, Sounds like great work. I'm the maintainer/developer of Jetty, a jboss developer and a debian user so I'm keen to help create a debian package for Jetty to fit in with your JBoss work. But I know zip about making debian packages, so if you can tell me what to do to make the deb package for Je

Re: [ANNOUNCE] JBoss 2.4.7 debs for public consumption

2002-06-29 Thread Greg Wilkins
Adam, Sounds like great work. I'm the maintainer/developer of Jetty, a jboss developer and a debian user so I'm keen to help create a debian package for Jetty to fit in with your JBoss work. But I know zip about making debian packages, so if you can tell me what to do to make the deb package f