Re: "satisfying Java solution under Debian"

2003-12-19 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >on the Debian booth at the Linux World Exposition in Frankfurt / >Germany, we had a visitor, whome you might find interessting. > >He offered 5000 Euro for an "satisfying sollution for Java in Debian". >

Re: J2SDK question

2003-12-16 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Marco Bresciani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Messaggio di Michael Borko del 16/12/2003: > >> hi! > >Oops... I've forgot something. :-) Sun releases the .bin file for Linux >of its J2SDK. Does it work on Debian?! Yes, though you have to install a spe

Re: [ANN] New version of j2se-package (formerly mpkg-j2sdk)

2003-11-12 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hallo Hubert, > >* Hubert Schmid wrote: >>the package also be called 'mpkg-j2se'? > >BTW: what does "2se stand for?" J2SE stands for Java2 Standard Edition in Sun-speak. Similarly, J2EE is Java2 Enterprise Edit

Re: findjava is the question, is fixjava the answer?

2003-10-16 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi Alexander, > >T. Alexander Popiel wrote: > >> I have not found any documented way of replacing the parser version. >> Mangling bootclasspath to do it isn't docume

Bug#212863: new java policy: ok or not?

2003-10-15 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [a minor rant about how there's not much progress on Java in Debian] I don't anything particularly useful to reply to the points that Jan makes, largely because I've given up on Java per se as part of Debian. The

Re: findjava is the question, is fixjava the answer?

2003-10-09 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >T. Alexander Popiel wrote: >> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Things like -bootclassp

Re: findjava is the question, is fixjava the answer?

2003-10-09 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Things like -bootclasspath are only used by broken by design >applications, anyway. It's -X*bootclasspath nowadays with Sun's VM, and >it's there for a single reason: debugging. Applications have no >buisi

Bug#212863: java-common: New java policy including tools to manage the changes

2003-10-07 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I still don't like the findjava idea. What is the goal? It looks like >this script provides a common interface to all of the java execution >systems (compilers, JITs, interpreters or otherwise) by concentrati

Bug#212863: java-common: New java policy including tools to manage the changes

2003-10-07 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I still don't like the findjava idea. What is the goal? It looks like >this script provides a common interface to all of the java execution >systems (compilers, JITs, interpreters or otherwise) by concentrati

Re: findjava requirement

2003-09-24 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "T. Alexander Popiel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Inserting and/or modifying does get complex; shift and unshift >and modifying IFS quickly become instrumental. That should be '...shift and set and modifying...&

Re: findjava requirement

2003-09-24 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> FWIW, the black magic is "$*" (including the quotes). > >Do you mean "$@"? If so, this (and "$*") become somewhat more >troublesome when you need to modify command-line arguments or insert >your own. Yes, I

Re: findjava requirement

2003-09-24 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "T. Alexander Popiel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Inserting and/or modifying does get complex; shift and unshift >and modifying IFS quickly become instrumental. That should be '...shift and set and modifying...&

Re: findjava requirement

2003-09-24 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> FWIW, the black magic is "$*" (including the quotes). > >Do you mean "$@"? If so, this (and "$*") become somewhat more >troublesome when you need to modify command-line arguments or insert >your own. Yes, I

Re: findjava requirement

2003-09-24 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >[...] some piece of sh black magic >that gets the quotes right and separates arguments - some of which >may contain spaces - at exactly the right places [1]). FWIW, the black magic is "$*" (including the quotes

Re: findjava requirement

2003-09-24 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >[...] some piece of sh black magic >that gets the quotes right and separates arguments - some of which >may contain spaces - at exactly the right places [1]). FWIW, the black magic is "$*" (including the quotes

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-09-02 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >* Matt Zimmerman wrote: > >>I like some of the ideas in your proposal, but things like "Java Runtime >>Environments, which are complient to the Java Spec of a specific Version, >>have to provide the virtual packag

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-09-02 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >* Matt Zimmerman wrote: > >>I like some of the ideas in your proposal, but things like "Java Runtime >>Environments, which are complient to the Java Spec of a specific Version, >>have to provide the virtual packag

Re: Policy: java1-runtime

2003-08-16 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Daniel Bonniot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>I would think that java2 is a superset of java1. >> >>Unfortunately, this is not the case; the deprecation of methods and >>classes make java2 an intersecting set, not a superset of java1. > >Deprecated fe

Re: Policy: java1-runtime

2003-08-16 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Daniel Bonniot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>I would think that java2 is a superset of java1. >> >>Unfortunately, this is not the case; the deprecation of methods and >>classes make java2 an intersecting set, not a superset of java1. > >Deprecated fe

Re: Policy: java1-runtime

2003-08-15 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Daniel Bonniot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I would think that java2 is a superset of java1. Unfortunately, this is not the case; the deprecation of methods and classes make java2 an intersecting set, not a superset of java1. >I propose the following

Re: Policy: java1-runtime

2003-08-15 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Daniel Bonniot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I would think that java2 is a superset of java1. Unfortunately, this is not the case; the deprecation of methods and classes make java2 an intersecting set, not a superset of java1. >I propose the following

Re: additions to java-policy

2003-07-28 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I agree with this. IMO a java jar should be handled the same as a >> binary lib ad should get API Version (~SONAME) included in its name. > >The problem is that many java libraries don't have a concept of an A

Re: additions to java-policy

2003-07-28 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I agree with this. IMO a java jar should be handled the same as a >> binary lib ad should get API Version (~SONAME) included in its name. > >The problem is that many java libraries don't have a concept of an A

Re: additions to java-policy

2003-07-28 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Should Java programs or libraries that use a versioned JAR from another >Java library have a versioned package dependency on this libraray? E.g. >if I use the current /usr/share/java/xalan-2.5.0.jar in my pa

Re: additions to java-policy

2003-07-28 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Should Java programs or libraries that use a versioned JAR from another >Java library have a versioned package dependency on this libraray? E.g. >if I use the current /usr/share/java/xalan-2.5.0.jar in my pa

Re: Java AWT for Debian?

2003-06-03 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:54:38PM +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > cat > Test.java << EOF >> > class Test { >> > public static void main(String[] args) { >> >

Re: Java AWT for Debian?

2003-06-02 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:54:38PM +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > cat > Test.java << EOF >> > class Test { >> > public static void main(String[] args) { >> >

Re: uploading mpkg-j2sdk

2003-06-02 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hubert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sat, 31 May 2003, T. Alexander Popiel wrote: > >> I don't think you can have a package both provide and conflict with >> the same thing (j2re). > >It works and is o

Re: uploading mpkg-j2sdk

2003-06-01 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hubert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sat, 31 May 2003, T. Alexander Popiel wrote: > >> I don't think you can have a package both provide and conflict with >> the same thing (j2re). > >It works and is o

Re: uploading mpkg-j2sdk

2003-06-01 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hubert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sat, 31 May 2003, Jan Schulz wrote: > > - the 'blackdown way': four packages are created from the binary Java2 > SDK: [...] > - or build different packages from the Java2 RE and the Java2 SDK binary > ar

Re: uploading mpkg-j2sdk

2003-05-31 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hubert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sat, 31 May 2003, Jan Schulz wrote: > > - the 'blackdown way': four packages are created from the binary Java2 > SDK: [...] > - or build different packages from the Java2 RE and the Java2 SDK binary > ar

Re: java1-compiler instead java-compiler

2003-04-07 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Keegan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Saturday 05 April 2003 05:58 pm, Juan Alvarez wrote: >> Looking to the debian meta-packages, I show the following packages: >> >> java-compiler >> java2-compiler >> >> java1-runtime >> java2-runtime >> >> Why

Re: Bug#182466: libbatik-java: limited JRE depencies

2003-02-27 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hello > >On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:16:01AM -0800, T. Alexander Popiel wrote: >> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#182466: libbatik-java: limited JRE depencies

2003-02-27 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hello > >On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:16:01AM -0800, T. Alexander Popiel wrote: >> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#182466: libbatik-java: limited JRE depencies

2003-02-26 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Hi > >Well there seems to be some vauge statements in the policy. I assumed >that blackdown should present both java1-runtime _and_ java2-runtime >becuse it can fulfill both runtime requirements (in reasonabl

Re: Bug#182466: libbatik-java: limited JRE depencies

2003-02-26 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Hi > >Well there seems to be some vauge statements in the policy. I assumed >that blackdown should present both java1-runtime _and_ java2-runtime >becuse it can fulfill both runtime requirements (in reasonabl

Re: Policy change proposal, Re: Bug#176628: sablevm: package incorrctly provides java1-runtime

2003-01-20 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If AWT / GUI stuff is a particular problem (which is my understanding), >> I think it would make sense to define virtual packages java1-awt-runtime >> (and possibly java2-swing-runtime). > >This is not a ba

Re: Policy change proposal, Re: Bug#176628: sablevm: package incorrctly provides java1-runtime

2003-01-20 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If AWT / GUI stuff is a particular problem (which is my understanding), >> I think it would make sense to define virtual packages java1-awt-runtime >> (and possibly java2-swing-runtime). > >This is not a ba

Re: policy suggestion: API docs are not for users

2003-01-03 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [on creating custom tasks for ant] >When you say frequently, how often do you mean. I personally have never >had to extend ant (and so never needed the api). It really depends on what you're doing. If all you

Re: policy suggestion: API docs are not for users

2003-01-03 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [on creating custom tasks for ant] >When you say frequently, how often do you mean. I personally have never >had to extend ant (and so never needed the api). It really depends on what you're doing. If all you

Re: policy suggestion: API docs are not for users

2002-12-31 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi, > I've just noticed that the user documentation package for ant (a tool, >not a library) contains 15 MB of API references. I've since filed bug >#174876 asking for this to be removed. Sadly, having the API

Re: policy suggestion: API docs are not for users

2002-12-31 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi, > I've just noticed that the user documentation package for ant (a tool, >not a library) contains 15 MB of API references. I've since filed bug >#174876 asking for this to be removed. Sadly, having the API

Re: stripping .class files of debug info

2002-10-10 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:12:39PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: >> As policy requires that all "binaries" (well, it's debatable whether >> class files fall under this) should be built with debug info and >> s

Re: stripping .class files of debug info

2002-10-10 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:12:39PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: >> As policy requires that all "binaries" (well, it's debatable whether >> class files fall under this) should be built with debug info and >>

Re: java-compiler useless?

2002-10-10 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:19:17PM +0100, Mark Howard wrote: > >> - Generated output is standard java bytecode [as defined by ...??] and >> stored in files of the form MyClass$MyInnerClass.class. > >Do anyone k

Re: java-compiler useless?

2002-10-10 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:19:17PM +0100, Mark Howard wrote: > >> - Generated output is standard java bytecode [as defined by ...??] and >> stored in files of the form MyClass$MyInnerClass.class. > >Do anyone

Re: java policy for debian, shared libraries...

2002-09-17 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Jmp works well with the jvms from sun(1.3.x, 1.4.x), blackdown (1.3.x, >> most probably 1.4.x) and ibm (1.3.x). >> I havent tried any other jvm. Java profilers are coded according to the >> jvmpi specifica

Re: java policy for debian, shared libraries...

2002-09-17 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Jmp works well with the jvms from sun(1.3.x, 1.4.x), blackdown (1.3.x, >> most probably 1.4.x) and ibm (1.3.x). >> I havent tried any other jvm. Java profilers are coded according to the >> jvmpi specific

Re: JAVA PROBLEM

2002-08-06 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "rahil vinod talwar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >com.ms.security.SecurityException[filename.paint]:java.IO.Exception >: bad path : d:\jdk1.2.2\bin\java\awt\Graphics2D.class > >java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.awt.Graphics2D Yes, Microsoft's IE

Re: libnbio-java versioning

2002-08-01 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I maintain libnbio-java, which is a JNI non-blocking socket IO package >for Java. My current .deb is for upstream version 1.5. The upstream >maintainer has just released version 2.0, and the only differ

Re: libnbio-java versioning

2002-08-01 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I maintain libnbio-java, which is a JNI non-blocking socket IO package >for Java. My current .deb is for upstream version 1.5. The upstream >maintainer has just released version 2.0, and the only diffe

Re: Limitations for dh_javadeps

2002-05-23 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >A perfect (?) solution would be to first search for >things in your CLASSPATH and then /usr/share/java/*.jar, and if >possible (or useful) search other places. >This can give results like the following, which

Re: Limitations for dh_javadeps

2002-05-23 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >A perfect (?) solution would be to first search for >things in your CLASSPATH and then /usr/share/java/*.jar, and if >possible (or useful) search other places. >This can give results like the following, whic

dh_javadeps first draft

2002-05-21 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
Here's a first draft of dh_javadeps and makejar. dh_javadeps has absolutely no documentation as yet, but should do the 'right' thing (adding appropriate substvars lines) if invoked without arguments after the install tree(s) have been made. makejar (the tool for building a jar file given a list o

dh_javadeps first draft

2002-05-21 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
Here's a first draft of dh_javadeps and makejar. dh_javadeps has absolutely no documentation as yet, but should do the 'right' thing (adding appropriate substvars lines) if invoked without arguments after the install tree(s) have been made. makejar (the tool for building a jar file given a list

Re: Limitations for dh_javadeps

2002-05-18 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:53:29AM -0700, T. Alexander Popiel wrote: >> 5. Would it be useful to folks if I made available a second dh_java* >>tool for taking a list of entry

Re: Limitations for dh_javadeps

2002-05-18 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:53:29AM -0700, T. Alexander Popiel wrote: >> 5. Would it be useful to folks if I made available a second dh_java* >>tool for taking a list of entry

Limitations for dh_javadeps

2002-05-18 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
This is mostly directed to Ola Lundqvist, but I figure that getting other people's opinions can't hurt. ;-) I've gotten all the debhelper scripts and I've been pawing through them, learning. However, in the process, I've come up with a couple more questions... 1. Should dh_javadeps only identify

Limitations for dh_javadeps

2002-05-18 Thread T. Alexander Popiel
This is mostly directed to Ola Lundqvist, but I figure that getting other people's opinions can't hurt. ;-) I've gotten all the debhelper scripts and I've been pawing through them, learning. However, in the process, I've come up with a couple more questions... 1. Should dh_javadeps only identif