Building concensus/policy for use of alternatives with Java

2005-03-16 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Debian Java, ~I had originally planned to send this message only to pkg-java-maintainers, but I believe this issue is broader in context and thus should have input from the debian-java list. ~The current usage of alternatives for common java exe

Re: [Fwd: Re: libbsf-java]

2005-03-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
Robert Lougher gmail.com> writes: > > Hi Dalibor, > > Dalibor Topic kaffe.org> writes: > > > Kaffe uses its own sysdepCallMethod code but can also use libffi as an > > additional option. See config/$arch/sysdepCallMethod.h for details. See > > config/sysdepCallMethod-ffi.h for the wrapper for

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Robert Lougher
Michael Koch gmx.de> writes: > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 02:39:19PM +, Robert Lougher wrote: > > Michael Koch gmx.de> writes: > > > > > > > Please don't use jamvm in general. It's only available on i386, powerpc > > > and arm. It's not ported yet to other archs and Porting to 64-bit archs

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Re: Experimenting with building libxalan2-java with free vm's

2005-03-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
Wolfgang Baer wrote: Yes, I read a bit of this thread - but I think that was (only) for some packages. As I remember the w3c package (the problem for xalan2) was one of the packages mentioned. Yeah. I though endorsed override would only work for some selected packages anyway, though. Better a wo

Re: [Fwd: Re: libbsf-java]

2005-03-16 Thread Robert Lougher
Hi Dalibor, Dalibor Topic kaffe.org> writes: > Kaffe uses its own sysdepCallMethod code but can also use libffi as an > additional option. See config/$arch/sysdepCallMethod.h for details. See > config/sysdepCallMethod-ffi.h for the wrapper for ffi. Feel free to merge it > into JamVM, if you thin

Re: [Fwd: Re: libbsf-java]

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Koch
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:40:22PM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: > > From: Robert Lougher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Wolfgang Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:08:49 + > Subject: Re: libbsf-java > > Hi again, > > > The statement of better choice is here maybe a bit out of co

Re: Experimenting with building libxalan2-java with free vm's

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Dalibor Topic wrote: Wolfgang Baer gmx.de> writes: Hi all, Therefore the first question: Are any of the free vm's capable of using the -Djava.endorsed.dirs feature to overwrite the interfaces ? Not yet, afaik. Gcjers are working on it, I plan to follow what they do, but haven't been following th

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Koch
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:47:27PM +, Robert Lougher wrote: > Wolfgang Baer gmx.de> writes: > > > > Hi Robert, > > > > That is just because of the debian policy which states that a package > > must be buildable from source on all debian arches. As jamvm is > > currently not available on all a

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Koch
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 02:39:19PM +, Robert Lougher wrote: > Michael Koch gmx.de> writes: > > > > Please don't use jamvm in general. It's only available on i386, powerpc > > and arm. It's not ported yet to other archs and Porting to 64-bit archs > > is hard due to the 32-bit ugliness in the

Re: [Fwd: Re: libbsf-java]

2005-03-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
Wolfgang Baer gmx.de> writes: > The difficulty (once 64-bit support is done) with porting JamVM to > these architectures is the calling convention. Other VMs (e.g. > SableVM) rely on libffi to do this portably. I prefer to instead use > hand-coded routines for each architecture/platform (using

Re: Experimenting with building libxalan2-java with free vm's

2005-03-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
Wolfgang Baer gmx.de> writes: > > Hi all, > > Therefore the first question: > > Are any of the free vm's capable of using the -Djava.endorsed.dirs > feature to overwrite the interfaces ? Not yet, afaik. Gcjers are working on it, I plan to follow what they do, but haven't been following the di

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
Wolfgang Baer gmx.de> writes: > > Dalibor Topic wrote: > > Wolfgang Baer gmx.de> writes: > > > > > >>But, kaffe is atm horrible broken for most package builds due to > >>bug (#295014). Every second package fails due to this bug to build. > >>libbsf-java is one of them thats why I had to switc

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Robert Lougher
Wolfgang Baer gmx.de> writes: > > Hi Robert, > > That is just because of the debian policy which states that a package > must be buildable from source on all debian arches. As jamvm is > currently not available on all arches the consequence is that if > I use jamvm for BUILDING my package on i386

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
Robert Lougher gmail.com> writes: > > Michael Koch gmx.de> writes: > > > Please don't use jamvm in general. It's only available on i386, powerpc > > and arm. It's not ported yet to other archs and Porting to 64-bit archs > > is hard due to the 32-bit ugliness in the upstream code. > > > > B

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Dalibor Topic wrote: Wolfgang Baer gmx.de> writes: But, kaffe is atm horrible broken for most package builds due to bug (#295014). Every second package fails due to this bug to build. libbsf-java is one of them thats why I had to switch. I already contacted upstream but didn't get any response so

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
Wolfgang Baer gmx.de> writes: > But, kaffe is atm horrible broken for most package builds due to > bug (#295014). Every second package fails due to this bug to build. > libbsf-java is one of them thats why I had to switch. I already > contacted upstream but didn't get any response so far. I gues

[Fwd: Re: libbsf-java]

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
--- Begin Message --- Hi again, > The statement of better choice is here maybe a bit out of context. gij, > kaffe or sablevm are in the case of using the vm to BUILD a package for > DEBIAN the (normally) only choice. But that has nothing to do with > the quality or fitness for a given task of jam

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Robert, Robert Lougher wrote: Michael Koch gmx.de> writes: Please don't use jamvm in general. It's only available on i386, powerpc and arm. It's not ported yet to other archs and Porting to 64-bit archs is hard due to the 32-bit ugliness in the upstream code. Better choices are gij, kaffe or s

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Robert Lougher
Michael Koch gmx.de> writes: > Please don't use jamvm in general. It's only available on i386, powerpc > and arm. It's not ported yet to other archs and Porting to 64-bit archs > is hard due to the 32-bit ugliness in the upstream code. > > Better choices are gij, kaffe or sablevm. > And with

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Baer wrote: | Forgot to post to list . | | Michael Koch wrote: | |> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:36:17AM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: | | | [...] | |> Please don't use jamvm in general. It's only available on i386, powerpc |> and arm. It's not

Re: Eclipse 3.0

2005-03-16 Thread Thomas Fogwill
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 10:36 +0100, Fred wrote: > Are there any eclipse 3.0 packages for debian ? Yip, Jerry's source packages are on mentors.debian.net See: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/e/eclipse/ -- Thomas Fogwill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- This message has been scanned for vir

Eclipse 3.0

2005-03-16 Thread Fred
Hi, Are there any eclipse 3.0 packages for debian ? Fred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Hi Michael, I also post to list - my fault as I forget to post to list in last message. Michael Koch wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:11:02AM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:36:17AM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: [...] Please don't use jamvm in general. It'

Re: libbsf-java

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang Baer
Forgot to post to list . Michael Koch wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:36:17AM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote: [...] Please don't use jamvm in general. It's only available on i386, powerpc and arm. It's not ported yet to other archs and Porting to 64-bit archs is hard due to the 32-bit ugliness in