Re: On the use of pre-compiled classes in packages

1999-12-08 Thread Julio Maia
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 09:41:28AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > If a package is distributed under a DFSG license, a dependency with the > > [Sun's] > > JDK (or other non-free libraries/compilers/tools) make it non-free? > > No, it moves it to "contrib" (that's where I've put Muffin). C

Re: On the use of pre-compiled classes in packages

1999-12-07 Thread Julio Maia
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:30:11PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > *I* would not mind (I'm a pragmatic), providing the *detailed* (i.e. > Makefile) instructions for recompiling are in the Debian package (one of the > packages which started the thread seems genuinely incompilable on Debian).

On the use of pre-compiled classes in packages

1999-12-06 Thread Julio Maia
Regarding the following bugs related to some of my packges: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/49/49557.html http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/49/49688.html I'd like to have a direction to follow regarding the use of pre-compiled classes in Debian packages. In other w

Re: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository

1999-11-07 Thread Julio Maia
I agree with most of your ideas, but I guess it's better to separate the classpath required for the vm's, libraries and 'applications' (in the meaning of java programs with main classes). The idea is to create a dependency system for the classpaths definitions. As an example, assume the follow

Re: ITP: ibm-jdk1.1-installer

1999-10-26 Thread Julio Maia
Hi again, Do you think it's a good idea to build an installer for jdk-1.2 as well? I've built an experimental package, which is available from: http://www.pobox.com/~julio/debian/jdk1.2-installer/ On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:48:21AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > It lloks like the blackdown JDK ha