Re: I can't install eclipse 2.1-2

2003-04-24 Thread Ahmed
Daigo Moriwaki wrote: eclipse 2.1-2 fails to install in my environment. When I did apt-get upgrade some of the latest Eclipse pacakges installed, but eclipse-platform fails like following: ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/eclipse-platform_2.1-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to ov

Re: I can't install eclipse

2003-04-23 Thread Ahmed
ome time... Afterwards you can dpkg -i the debs It takes time, it takes disk space and it does not work... $ fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage ... dh_installdirs # Add here commands to install the package into debian/eclipse. cp -ar /home/ahmed/data/eclipse-2.1/build-tree/* /home/ahmed/data/eclipse-2.1/

I can't install eclipse

2003-04-22 Thread Ahmed
Hello. eclipse, eclipse-javac, eclipse-jdt, eclipse-platform and libswt-java available packages are all 2.1-1 version. Some of them depend on 2.1-3 versions of eclipse-javac, eclipse-jdt and eclipse-platform. Where are these 2.1-3 packages to be found?

Re: SableVM & Jikes: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError

2003-01-18 Thread Ahmed
Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: Please use jikes from testing distro (1.15). You shouldn't have any other problems because of that. Bytecode outputed by newer jikes makes use of some functions that SableVM doesn't have yet. Jikes seems to have changed a lot since 1.15 (http://www-124.ibm.com/devel

Re: SableVM & Jikes: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError

2003-01-18 Thread Ahmed
Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: Please use jikes from testing distro (1.15). You shouldn't have any other problems because of that. Bytecode outputed by newer jikes makes use of some functions that SableVM doesn't have yet. Jikes seems to have changed a lot since 1.15 (http://www-124.ibm.com/dev

SableVM & Jikes: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError

2003-01-18 Thread Ahmed
Hi, $ cat Hello.java class Hello { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello."); } } $ jikes-sable Hello.java $ sablevm --no-copyright Hello java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError at java.lang.VMClassLoader.nativeDefineClass(VMClassLoader.java) at

SableVM & Jikes: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError

2003-01-17 Thread Ahmed
Hi, $ cat Hello.java class Hello { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello."); } } $ jikes-sable Hello.java $ sablevm --no-copyright Hello java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError at java.lang.VMClassLoader.nativeDefineClass(VMClassLoader.java) a

Ant

2003-01-16 Thread Ahmed
Hi, Ant package (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/ant.html) do not depend on any Java Compiler. This way, ant task is unusable without some help (JAVA_HOME environment variable, build.compiler property). It is a core Ant task (http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/index.html). On the

Ant

2003-01-16 Thread Ahmed
Hi, Ant package (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/ant.html) do not depend on any Java Compiler. This way, ant task is unusable without some help (JAVA_HOME environment variable, build.compiler property). It is a core Ant task (http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/index.html). On the

Re: JAVA_HOME policy

2003-01-11 Thread Ahmed
Andrew Pimlott wrote: But of course people are using it (tools.jar). That is real life. But it doesn't solve the problem of whether to use tools.jar in the first place. The right question. Should tools.jar be promoted to a kind of a standard? Answer: No.

Re: JAVA_HOME policy

2003-01-11 Thread Ahmed
Andrew Pimlott wrote: But of course people are using it (tools.jar). That is real life. But it doesn't solve the problem of whether to use tools.jar in the first place. The right question. Should tools.jar be promoted to a kind of a standard? Answer: No. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: JAVA_HOME policy

2003-01-10 Thread Ahmed
Joe Phillips wrote: I haven't delved too deeply into the bowels of JBOSS/Tomcat *yet* but as I understand it, it contains the java compiler. Ant is a simpler example. ant (/usr/share/ant/bin/ant) command is a short shell script worth reading. The Sun java compiler is written in java. javac is mere

Re: JAVA_HOME policy

2003-01-10 Thread Ahmed
Joe Phillips wrote: I haven't delved too deeply into the bowels of JBOSS/Tomcat *yet* but as I understand it, it contains the java compiler. Ant is a simpler example. ant (/usr/share/ant/bin/ant) command is a short shell script worth reading. The Sun java compiler is written in java. javac is

Debian Java FAQ (java-common)

2002-12-27 Thread Ahmed
java-common is documentation. Java Policy is ... policy. Java FAQ is something interesting. It should be updated. How about using XML Docbook, like Java Policy, instead of SGML debiandoc? Something like: http://www.baizid.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/home/ahmed/work/debian/java-common/debian-java-faq

Debian Java FAQ (java-common)

2002-12-27 Thread Ahmed
java-common is documentation. Java Policy is ... policy. Java FAQ is something interesting. It should be updated. How about using XML Docbook, like Java Policy, instead of SGML debiandoc? Something like: http://www.baizid.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/home/ahmed/work/debian/java-common/debian-java

JCP, JSR, RI, TCK, etc

2002-12-19 Thread Ahmed
It seems that Sun is willing to modify its licencing scheme. http://java.sun.com/features/2002/10/new_jcp.html I did not understand it in full. I have to read it multiple times. It is like a lawyer wrote it.

Java software comes bundled with its own jars.

2002-12-19 Thread Ahmed
I would like to package Apache Jakarta/XML software. Of course, I have got to do it from sources, either releases or CVS. Surprise... They are putting jars in CVS! These jars are not only needed to build but also to run. If you install some of the software, you'll find your self installing mult

JCP, JSR, RI, TCK, etc

2002-12-19 Thread Ahmed
It seems that Sun is willing to modify its licencing scheme. http://java.sun.com/features/2002/10/new_jcp.html I did not understand it in full. I have to read it multiple times. It is like a lawyer wrote it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Java software comes bundled with its own jars.

2002-12-19 Thread Ahmed
I would like to package Apache Jakarta/XML software. Of course, I have got to do it from sources, either releases or CVS. Surprise... They are putting jars in CVS! These jars are not only needed to build but also to run. If you install some of the software, you'll find your self installing mult

Java Policy Typos

2002-12-11 Thread Ahmed
I am running an unstable Debian. I have "apt-get"ed source java-common. It was version 0.16. A typo make it invalid XML. References to the Debian policy do not seem correct. I propose the attached patch. --- policy.xml 2002-12-12 02:42:18.0 +0100 +++ policy.xml 2002-12-12 03:32:28.00

Java Policy Typos

2002-12-11 Thread Ahmed
I am running an unstable Debian. I have "apt-get"ed source java-common. It was version 0.16. A typo make it invalid XML. References to the Debian policy do not seem correct. I propose the attached patch. --- policy.xml 2002-12-12 02:42:18.0 +0100 +++ policy.xml 2002-12-12 03:32:28.0