Bug#212863: (no subject)

2003-10-08 Thread silviogastaldo
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Re: findjava is the question, is fixjava the answer?

2003-10-08 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello Ricky, Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 5:56:22 PM, you wrote: > Well, if the Debian Java policy were modified so that > the command line were rigorously defined (basically > take the output of java -help from the Sun JVM or > elsewhere) I'm waiting for the screams... Lets see: java -help will

Re: findjava is the question, is fixjava the answer?

2003-10-08 Thread Ricky Clarkson
Hi Jan, > only to debian-java and not to the BTS? Only to debian-java because I felt that it probably wasn't relevant enough to the bug report. > IMO, this has the big drawback, of all alternative > bases > configurations, that the app can't be sure that the > /usr/bin/java > will be able to run

Re: findjava is the question, is fixjava the answer?

2003-10-08 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello Ricky, only to debian-java and not to the BTS? Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 11:55:23 AM, you wrote: > I did the configuration by telling the user what PATH to set, but maybe > this would be better done using the alternatives system (I wasn't > thinking Debian-only at the time). > Do you thin

Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-08 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello Daniel, Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 12:11:24 PM, you wrote: > There seems to be some misunderstanding going on. Having not taken > sides, I thought I would try to help clarify the positions. Thanks for summarizing it up! > That's Ean's point. Each JVM has its own command line arguments, so

Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-08 Thread Daniel Bonniot
Hi all, There seems to be some misunderstanding going on. Having not taken sides, I thought I would try to help clarify the positions. 1) Necessity for findjava I think Jan explained this well in his last message. Package A might work with kaffe or gij but not sablevm, while package B works wi

findjava is the question, is fixjava the answer?

2003-10-08 Thread Ricky Clarkson
I wrote (and lost) a Perl program called fixjava, which finds all the JVMs (and compilers) on the system, plus the default one, and allows the user to configure the one they want (and test against various Java versions). I did the configuration by telling the user what PATH to set, but maybe this

Bug#212863: java-common: New java policy including tools to manage the changes

2003-10-08 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello Ean, Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 6:22:49 AM, you wrote: > I still don't understand what this achieves that alternatives do not. Imagine this situation: Application needs a special feature, which is implemented in about half the java alternatives. /usr/bin/java will be set by all java binar

Re: RFS: libxt-java (0.20020426a-1) -- An implementation in Java of XSL Transformations

2003-10-08 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:44:57 -0400 (EDT) "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll do it. Where's the source package? http://vbstefi60.fapse.ulg.ac.be/~arnaud/debian/libxt-java-0.20020426a-1.tar.gz It's a tarball containing everything you need. > Also Ola said a while back he wouldn't

Bug#212863: java-common: New java policy including tools to manage the changes

2003-10-08 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello Ean, Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 6:22:49 AM, you wrote: > I still don't understand what this achieves that alternatives do not. Imagine this situation: Application needs a special feature, which is implemented in about half the java alternatives. /usr/bin/java will be set by all java binar