Re: Java on Linux

2001-03-01 Thread Matthias Wieser
One more thing: sdk and jdk are packaged for debian -> see blackdown :) ( http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html to find your nearest mirror) Ciao mattHias -- __ _ __ * /\_/\ \ \_/ \_/ / * Matthias Wieser * / \ \ /

Re: Java on Linux

2001-03-01 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Evan, That presents a problem. Java itself is free, but Sun's implementation is not. For this reason, forcing all packages which depend on `java-virtual-machine' or whatever is pretty unfair. Packages that depend specifically on Sun's implementation, however, belong in contrib. Regards, Alex. -

Re: Java on Linux

2001-03-01 Thread Matthias Wieser
One more thing: sdk and jdk are packaged for debian -> see blackdown :) ( http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html to find your nearest mirror) Ciao mattHias -- __ _ __ * /\_/\ \ \_/ \_/ / * Matthias Wieser * / \ \ /

Re: Java on Linux

2001-03-01 Thread Artur Radosz
Evan Prodromou wrote: "AR" == Artur Radosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AR> But it will be good to have this in debian dist. This and AR> others java lib, applications or systems. It can't be in Debian, since it's not DFSG-Free. If it can be legally redistributed with Debian, though, it can

Re: Java on Linux

2001-03-01 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Evan, That presents a problem. Java itself is free, but Sun's implementation is not. For this reason, forcing all packages which depend on `java-virtual-machine' or whatever is pretty unfair. Packages that depend specifically on Sun's implementation, however, belong in contrib. Regards, Alex.

Re: Java on Linux

2001-03-01 Thread Evan Prodromou
> "AR" == Artur Radosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AR> But it will be good to have this in debian dist. This and AR> others java lib, applications or systems. It can't be in Debian, since it's not DFSG-Free. If it can be legally redistributed with Debian, though, it can go in non-fre

Re: Java on Linux

2001-03-01 Thread Artur Radosz
Colin Michael Yates wrote: Hi, Maybe I have missed the point (getting ready to be flamed :-)) but what is the problem of downloading the Sun JDK and running it on Linux? It is very easy to configure and use, and although slow, it is very reliable? Yes, it`s true. Even if you can't distribute Sun's

Re: Java on Linux

2001-03-01 Thread Artur Radosz
Evan Prodromou wrote: >> "AR" == Artur Radosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > AR> But it will be good to have this in debian dist. This and > AR> others java lib, applications or systems. > > It can't be in Debian, since it's not DFSG-Free. > > If it can be legally redistrib

Re: Java on Linux

2001-03-01 Thread Evan Prodromou
> "AR" == Artur Radosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AR> But it will be good to have this in debian dist. This and AR> others java lib, applications or systems. It can't be in Debian, since it's not DFSG-Free. If it can be legally redistributed with Debian, though, it can go in non-fr

Re: Java on Linux

2001-03-01 Thread Artur Radosz
Colin Michael Yates wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe I have missed the point (getting ready to be flamed :-)) but what is > the problem of downloading the Sun JDK and running it on Linux? It is very > easy to configure and use, and although slow, it is very reliable? Yes, it`s true. > > Even if you ca

Re: Java on linux questions

1999-11-22 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 11:46:52AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Kaffe fails for every non-trivial program. I'm running Jigsaw on it, which is a 10 Meg distribution and reasonably non-trivial. I'm also using it for a clustered tuple-space managed web server infrastructure that we've built he

Re: Java on linux questions

1999-11-15 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 12 November 1999, at 17 h 8, the keyboard of Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > linux if at all possible. So my main question is: What is the state of java > under linux? Under Linux, I don't know. Under Debian, you have a nice set of free and good Java compilers in the current