Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-17 Thread Mark Howard
On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 17:48, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 15:15, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > My opinion is make the separate jar from the classpath source package > > > and don't worry a

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 15:15, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > My opinion is make the separate jar from the classpath source package > > and don't worry about version problem. Each time you update classpath, > > the thr

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread Mark Howard
On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 15:15, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > My opinion is make the separate jar from the classpath source package > and don't worry about version problem. Each time you update classpath, > the three or four additionnal packages will be upgraded (even if > nothing change). I do not think it

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
John Leuner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Because it's not compatible with the java-policy. The classes are not > > > in a jar file and they are not in /usr/share/java. So people should > > > put in their classpath /usr/share/classpath/glibj.zip... with all the > > > classes, not only the jta

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread John Leuner
> > Because it's not compatible with the java-policy. The classes are not > > in a jar file and they are not in /usr/share/java. So people should > > put in their classpath /usr/share/classpath/glibj.zip... with all the > > classes, not only the jta, jdbc-ext or swing. > I agree - these should be

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Mark, --- Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 21:46, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > How complete is libswing-java? > > > > http://rainbow.netreach.net/~sballard/japi/ > > That's impressive. > Does it work so well in real life? We've had so many people saying that >

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-16 Thread Mark Howard
On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 21:46, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > How complete is libswing-java? > > http://rainbow.netreach.net/~sballard/japi/ That's impressive. Does it work so well in real life? We've had so many people saying that swing is not possible with free tools that these pages are somewhat

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-15 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [I do reply to Mark AND to John] Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 08:51, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > The proposal is to have more package from classpath. IMHO the hack > > would be trivial and I'd be glad to help. > > > >

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-15 Thread John Leuner
On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 08:51, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe you've seen I fill some ITP to get jta and jdbc in Debian. I did > package them but it's non-free stuff. After some discussion on the > classpath and classpathx-discuss lists, I learnt that these classes > were in classpath! Bu

Re: [PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-15 Thread Mark Howard
On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 08:51, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > The proposal is to have more package from classpath. IMHO the hack > would be trivial and I'd be glad to help. > > With this proposal, we could have these packages in Debian main: > > - libgnujta-java (java transaction api) > - libgnujdbc-stdex

[PROPOSAL] Add some package from 'classpath'

2003-04-15 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Hi all, Maybe you've seen I fill some ITP to get jta and jdbc in Debian. I did package them but it's non-free stuff. After some discussion on the classpath and classpathx-discuss lists, I learnt that these classes were in classpath! But it's not usable for me as is. The proposal is to have more p