policy proposal: java2 alternative

2002-08-31 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Package: java-common Version: 0.14 Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As the policy maintainer I would like you to file this as a bug > to java-common too. It helps me to remember it. Done. Going into minimal snipping mode due to that. > On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 11:54:08AM +0200, Robert

Re: [michaelc@lindows.com: [Matthias.Pfisterer@web.de: Re: autobuilders and java]]

2002-08-31 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Michael Cardenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately, I tried to compile Limewire with Jikes and it > failed. So does gcj. > > I've been asked to break these compilation bugs down into small test > programs and write bugs for them, but my Java is not all that great so > it's going to tak

Re: Java policy

2002-08-31 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are some things that might want to be added before it > becomes truly official. > > See the policy at: > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/ > > * gcj and how to handle that (should it be mentioned at all?). I don't have the

Re: comments on proposed java policy

2002-08-31 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Jan Evert van Grootheest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. why is there a difference between java1 and java2? Isn't java1 >virtually obsolete? "Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software" As long as there are no free implementations of java2 we can't let java1 slip into obsolescence. > 2. why mus

Re: free ant | naming issues

2002-08-31 Thread Mark Howard
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 11:20, Stefan Gybas wrote: > Mark Howard wrote: > > > 1) Does anyone know of any apache ant clone in main. Or, is there any > > chance of ant being moved to main in the near future. > > I don't know of any Ant clone bu I'm working on moving Ant (and some > other Java packa

Re: free ant | naming issues

2002-08-31 Thread Stefan Gybas
Mark Howard wrote: 1) Does anyone know of any apache ant clone in main. Or, is there any chance of ant being moved to main in the near future. I don't know of any Ant clone bu I'm working on moving Ant (and some other Java packages) to main. I'll split ant into ant in main and ant-optional (whic

free ant | naming issues

2002-08-31 Thread Mark Howard
[Please CC me - I'm not on the list] Hi, I'm working at creating early packages for the Java-Gnome project. 1) Does anyone know of any apache ant clone in main. Or, is there any chance of ant being moved to main in the near future. If not, I will probably start work on a perl script to implemen

policy proposal: java2 alternative

2002-08-31 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Package: java-common Version: 0.14 Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As the policy maintainer I would like you to file this as a bug > to java-common too. It helps me to remember it. Done. Going into minimal snipping mode due to that. > On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 11:54:08AM +0200, Rober

Re: [michaelc@lindows.com: [Matthias.Pfisterer@web.de: Re: autobuilders and java]]

2002-08-31 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Michael Cardenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately, I tried to compile Limewire with Jikes and it > failed. So does gcj. > > I've been asked to break these compilation bugs down into small test > programs and write bugs for them, but my Java is not all that great so > it's going to ta

Re: Java policy

2002-08-31 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are some things that might want to be added before it > becomes truly official. > > See the policy at: > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/ > > * gcj and how to handle that (should it be mentioned at all?). I don't have th

Re: comments on proposed java policy

2002-08-31 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Jan Evert van Grootheest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. why is there a difference between java1 and java2? Isn't java1 >virtually obsolete? "Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software" As long as there are no free implementations of java2 we can't let java1 slip into obsolescence. > 2. why mu

Re: free ant | naming issues

2002-08-31 Thread Mark Howard
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 11:20, Stefan Gybas wrote: > Mark Howard wrote: > > > 1) Does anyone know of any apache ant clone in main. Or, is there any > > chance of ant being moved to main in the near future. > > I don't know of any Ant clone bu I'm working on moving Ant (and some > other Java pack

Re: free ant | naming issues

2002-08-31 Thread Stefan Gybas
Mark Howard wrote: > 1) Does anyone know of any apache ant clone in main. Or, is there any > chance of ant being moved to main in the near future. I don't know of any Ant clone bu I'm working on moving Ant (and some other Java packages) to main. I'll split ant into ant in main and ant-optiona

free ant | naming issues

2002-08-31 Thread Mark Howard
[Please CC me - I'm not on the list] Hi, I'm working at creating early packages for the Java-Gnome project. 1) Does anyone know of any apache ant clone in main. Or, is there any chance of ant being moved to main in the near future. If not, I will probably start work on a perl script to impleme