Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-09 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello Ean, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 10:26:10 PM, you wrote: > They often use JAVA_HOME to find the executable, the base class > libraries, The base classes shouldn't matter apart from ant bootclasspath, which is already included in the ant-environment. > the compiler and jar. Both are useba

Re: tomcat apache and ALL their friends

2003-10-09 Thread Thomas Jachmann
> Sorry I've not been keeping up on the world of Debian java. I never have been into it really, since I needed JDK 1.4 and didn't find anything of how to get it officially. This is why I actually went the non debian way, I guess: Installing JDK and Tomcat manually, not using apt-get, thus being abl

Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 13:46, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Which only works for those apps that use JAVA_HOME to find the java > executable to run themselves. Not for the others. They often use JAVA_HOME to find the executable, the base class libraries, the compiler and jar. Of course, that presents ano

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

2003-10-09 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello Dalibor, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 9:12:38 PM, you wrote: > Well, yes. But no matter which version they put in, it's always going to > have bugs, and be a decidedly old version in a year from now. I thought > there was a documented way to replace the parser implementation using > system p

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

2003-10-09 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >T. Alexander Popiel wrote: >> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Things like -bootclasspath are only used by broken by design >>>applications, any

Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-09 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello Ean, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 7:33:22 AM, you wrote: > For instance, if the Tomcat maintainer decides that compiling certain > baseline classes with GCJ before running the main system with GIJ is a > good idea then I can't see that findjava will elegantly accomodate that. > The idea itself

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

2003-10-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
Jan Schulz wrote: Unfortunately, the Xerces J developers don't want to lose that 'feature' so the miserable code will stay in, preventing the next release of Xerces-J from being buildable on any free VM. Than I'm particulary happy, that eclipse will lose the internal xerces in the next version

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

2003-10-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
T. Alexander Popiel wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Things like -bootclasspath are only used by broken by design applications, anyway. It's -X*bootclasspath nowadays with Sun's VM, and it's there for a single reason: debugging. Applic

Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Ean, thanks for your quick reply! Ean Schuessler wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 12:17, Dalibor Topic wrote: For example, it seems to be impossible for a non-root user, to overwrite the java alternative, whereas the proposed scheme allows the user to specify a different (maybe even working ;)

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

2003-10-09 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello Dalibor, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 6:34:56 PM, you wrote: >> I'm waiting for the screams... > /me screams: not the same discussion again! ;) Thanks! :) [...big snip, complete ACK...] > Unfortunately, the Xerces J developers don't want to lose that 'feature' > so the miserable code will st

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

2003-10-09 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Things like -bootclasspath are only used by broken by design >applications, anyway. It's -X*bootclasspath nowadays with Sun's VM, and >it's there for a single reason: debugging. Applications have no >buisi

Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 12:17, Dalibor Topic wrote: > For example, it seems to be impossible for a non-root user, to overwrite > the java alternative, whereas the proposed scheme allows the user to > specify a different (maybe even working ;) jvm that he one that comes up > on top of the alternati

Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-09 Thread Jan Schulz
Hello Dalibor, Replying here, becasue I haven't seen the post from Ean. Thursday, October 9, 2003, 7:17:19 PM, you wrote: > the way I understood it, it has little to do with specific tunings, and > more with giving the application packager a simple, common way to tell > the user which VMs will w

Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
Ean Schuessler wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 05:11, Daniel Bonniot wrote: 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 with gij or sablevm but not kaffe. Alternatives cannot handle thi

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

2003-10-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Jan, hello Ricky, Jan Schulz wrote: 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 scre

Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-09 Thread Ean Schuessler
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 05:11, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > 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 with gij > or sablevm but not kaffe. Alternatives cannot handle this situation.

Re: tomcat apache and ALL their friends

2003-10-09 Thread Michael R Head
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 11:19, J. R. Westmoreland wrote: > Could someone please explain to me, I'm currently just a bit confused, why tomcat is > now is multiple peices? > Also, what peices do I really need to have? Why does it feel the need to install > what seems like EVERY java or java-like pack

tomcat apache and ALL their friends

2003-10-09 Thread J. R. Westmoreland
Could someone please explain to me, I'm currently just a bit confused, why tomcat is now is multiple peices? Also, what peices do I really need to have? Why does it feel the need to install what seems like EVERY java or java-like package? Does this new scheme require going to apache2 to make it w