Re: Packaging Java libraries

2001-07-23 Thread Takashi Okamoto
Hi Sam, At Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:30:14 +1000 (EST), Sam Johnston wrote: > Good point - I don't know what it's been compiled on nor whether it will > compile on one of the free compilers (surely jikes will manage) so it would > be a worthwhile exercise anyway. So now the only question that remains is

Re: Packaging Java libraries

2001-07-23 Thread Takashi Okamoto
Hi Sam, At Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:30:14 +1000 (EST), Sam Johnston wrote: > Good point - I don't know what it's been compiled on nor whether it will > compile on one of the free compilers (surely jikes will manage) so it would > be a worthwhile exercise anyway. So now the only question that remains i

Re: Packaging Java libraries

2001-07-22 Thread Sam Johnston
Good point - I don't know what it's been compiled on nor whether it will compile on one of the free compilers (surely jikes will manage) so it would be a worthwhile exercise anyway. So now the only question that remains is whether to use the java 1 or java 2 targets. - samj > At Sun, 22 Jul 2001

Re: Packaging Java libraries

2001-07-22 Thread Sam Johnston
Good point - I don't know what it's been compiled on nor whether it will compile on one of the free compilers (surely jikes will manage) so it would be a worthwhile exercise anyway. So now the only question that remains is whether to use the java 1 or java 2 targets. - samj > At Sun, 22 Jul 2001

Re: Packaging Java libraries

2001-07-22 Thread Takashi Okamoto
At Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:46:17 +1000 (EST), Sam Johnston wrote: > So should I be creating a source package ala libxerces-java, and if > so, should I be using the 1.1 or 1.3 jdk/makefile targets? I don't know about mysql but I recommend using kaffe and jikes. kaffe and jikes are satisfied DFSG. If yo

Re: Packaging Java libraries

2001-07-22 Thread Takashi Okamoto
At Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:46:17 +1000 (EST), Sam Johnston wrote: > So should I be creating a source package ala libxerces-java, and if > so, should I be using the 1.1 or 1.3 jdk/makefile targets? I don't know about mysql but I recommend using kaffe and jikes. kaffe and jikes are satisfied DFSG. If y

Re: Packaging Java libraries

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Johnston
Thanks for the quick response... perhaps I wasn't clear about what I'm trying to do - that being creating a libmysql-java package for debian which drops mysql.jar in /usr/share/java. Looking at libxerces-java it seems that creating a source package is the 'done thing', although having downloaded

Re: Packaging Java libraries

2001-07-21 Thread nils
> I recently sent out an ITP for a MySQL JDBC driver > (http://mmmysql.sourceforge.net) and have started looking at how to package > it up. This is my first attempt at a java package and a second attempt at > packaging anything (the other being rdesktop). I've downloaded both the > source and binar

Re: Packaging Java libraries

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Johnston
Thanks for the quick response... perhaps I wasn't clear about what I'm trying to do - that being creating a libmysql-java package for debian which drops mysql.jar in /usr/share/java. Looking at libxerces-java it seems that creating a source package is the 'done thing', although having downlo

Re: Packaging Java libraries

2001-07-21 Thread nils
> I recently sent out an ITP for a MySQL JDBC driver > (http://mmmysql.sourceforge.net) and have started looking at how to package > it up. This is my first attempt at a java package and a second attempt at > packaging anything (the other being rdesktop). I've downloaded both the > source and bina