Re: Does Debian support non free JVM's? (was: Re: Bug#273560: ant: test-reports fails with JDK 1.5)

2004-11-12 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 10:17, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > I read the subject of this mail nearly twice a week or more and I > hesitate to answer or not. I doubt because this bug report raise another > question: does Debian support non-free JDK? > > I'd like to answer NO! But there is something schi

Re: Does Debian support non free JVM's?

2004-11-12 Thread spam2004
Hi. So our users seems to need JDK1.5 (or should I call it JDK5.0?) but it's clear it's not free software at all! Also, if we support non free JDK's, I doubt people will test free JVM's and file bug reports against them (and that's what we need more: this simple test case works with non free JVM,

Re: Does Debian support non free JVM's? (was: Re: Bug#273560: ant: test-reports fails with JDK 1.5)

2004-11-12 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:17:07 +0100, Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So our users seems to need JDK1.5 (or should I call it JDK5.0?) but > it's clear it's not free software at all! Also, if we support non free > JDK's, I doubt people will test free JVM's and file bug reports against >

Does Debian support non free JVM's? (was: Re: Bug#273560: ant: test-reports fails with JDK 1.5)

2004-11-12 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:56:16 +0200, Simon Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it seems that 'ant test-reports' does not work with JDK 1.5. > > $ java -version > java version "1.5.0-beta" > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-b

pkg-eclipse@alioth

2004-11-12 Thread Joerg Wendland
Hi, sorry for getting back to you all so late, I am currently writing my diploma thesis which leaves not much time for eclipse. As you already may have noticed an pkg-eclipse project has been set up on alioth. If you want to participate write me and I'll add you to the project. I will then join

Re: Sun's jdk integration

2004-11-12 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
This thread begs for me to write something -- and I tried to do so, three times, but each response came out sounding like a fight; I am at a loss for words. Therefore I will only ask: Are hopes for a SUN JavaVM on Debian badly mis-placed? -- WC -Sx- Jones http://insecurity.org/