Re: Java policy change proposal: runtime/compiler selection

2006-08-23 Thread Tom Marble
Matthias Klose wrote: > Tom Marble writes: >> Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: >>> Currently, there is update-java-alternatives in java-common to manage >>> the various java commands and how they refer to which implementation. >>> People can however ignore it and update-alternatives themselves, things

Re: Handling native libs within a Virtual Machine

2006-08-23 Thread Tom Marble
Matthias Klose wrote: >> If I follow the instructions for "Local installation" [2] which keeping >> Debian Policy [3] in mind I then can do the following (to simulate > > local installations should never install directly into /usr, always in > /usr/local. I think the Debian packaging guidelines a

Re: Java policy change proposal: runtime/compiler selection

2006-08-23 Thread Matthias Klose
Tom Marble writes: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Currently, there is update-java-alternatives in java-common to manage > > the various java commands and how they refer to which implementation. > > People can however ignore it and update-alternatives themselves, things > > can get out-of-sync,

Re: Handling native libs within a Virtual Machine

2006-08-23 Thread Matthias Klose
Tom Marble writes: > Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > Tom Marble wrote: > >> Current Debian Java Policy [1] in section "Chapter 2.1: Virtual Machines" > >> stipulates "If a virtual machine supports native code, it must include > >> the > >> directory /usr/lib/jni in its search path for these dynamic li

Is batik squiggle supposed to work?

2006-08-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I've been testing batik on and off with Classpath the last year, hoping it would make it to Debian/main and thus allow the OpenJump package to make it into Debian/main. But there are still issues. But I am starting to suspect that the problem isn't with Classpath, but with batik itself, as it fa