Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 15:15, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > My opinion is make the separate jar from the classpath source package > > and don't worry about version problem. Each time you update classpath, > > the thr

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread Mark Howard
On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 15:15, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > My opinion is make the separate jar from the classpath source package > and don't worry about version problem. Each time you update classpath, > the three or four additionnal packages will be upgraded (even if > nothing change). I do not think it

Re: Swing and other free GUIs (KDE?)

2003-04-16 Thread Mark Howard
On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 09:38, E.L. Willighagen wrote: > (Are there Gnome bindings too?) ... > Could that be an alternative to build truely free Debian Java GUI > programs? There is the java-gnome project which does just this. I am one of the upstream developers and maintain the debian packages

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
John Leuner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Because it's not compatible with the java-policy. The classes are not > > > in a jar file and they are not in /usr/share/java. So people should > > > put in their classpath /usr/share/classpath/glibj.zip... with all the > > > classes, not only the jta

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread John Leuner
> > Because it's not compatible with the java-policy. The classes are not > > in a jar file and they are not in /usr/share/java. So people should > > put in their classpath /usr/share/classpath/glibj.zip... with all the > > classes, not only the jta, jdbc-ext or swing. > I agree - these should be

Re: Swing and other free GUIs (KDE?)

2003-04-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- "E.L. Willighagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering though... Is Swing the only GUI available? That is, are there > > alternatives? There is AWT ofcourse, but I nevered used that, because Swing > looked so much better... No. But Swing is the one that's most widely used, as it's

no j2sdk1.3 for ppc?

2003-04-16 Thread florian
hi! i was wondering, why is there no j2dsk1.3 package for ppc? ciao! florian

Re: Swing and other free GUIs (KDE?)

2003-04-16 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, E.L. Willighagen wrote: > I was wondering though... Is Swing the only GUI available? That is, are there > alternatives? There is AWT ofcourse, but I nevered used that, because Swing > looked so much better... Swing builds on top of AWT AFAIK. There's also SWT from IBM which

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Mark, --- Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 21:46, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > How complete is libswing-java? > > > > http://rainbow.netreach.net/~sballard/japi/ > > That's impressive. > Does it work so well in real life? We've had so many people saying that >

Swing and other free GUIs (KDE?)

2003-04-16 Thread E.L. Willighagen
Hi all, which much interest I have been reading the swing thread the last few days... I was wondering though... Is Swing the only GUI available? That is, are there alternatives? There is AWT ofcourse, but I nevered used that, because Swing looked so much better... What about the KDE bindings?

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread Mark Howard
On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 21:46, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > How complete is libswing-java? > > http://rainbow.netreach.net/~sballard/japi/ That's impressive. Does it work so well in real life? We've had so many people saying that swing is not possible with free tools that these pages are somewhat