Re: implementing sensible-java to improve the alternative system

2010-05-08 Thread Torsten Werner
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > then sensible-* seems a waste of resources. maybe you could come up with a > rationale first, what you do want to achieve? Have you read the wiki page? "All java related tools such as java, javac, javadoc are symlinks are handled by the alt

Re: implementing sensible-java to improve the alternative system

2010-05-08 Thread Matthias Klose
On 06.05.2010 16:00, Torsten Werner wrote: Hi Matthias, improving the current alternative-based system is needed, but you only replace one inflexible system with another one. That is intended somehow. Java-common should not be updated too often and that is why the flavor mapping is based on d

Re: implementing sensible-java to improve the alternative system

2010-05-06 Thread Torsten Werner
Hi Matthias, let me answer in a different order. > What does the name 'sun' mean? A vm, a jdk, anything else? If it's a VM, it > better should be something like hotspot, zero, zeroasm, or shark. It is currently inspired by java-wrappers but need not be identical to java-wrappers. I am open for

Re: implementing sensible-java to improve the alternative system

2010-05-06 Thread Matthias Klose
On 05.05.2010 22:46, Torsten Werner wrote: Hi, I have an idea about implementing sensible-tools for the java world and wrote them down at. I have already implemented a proof of concept. What do you think about it? Does it make sense at all? Is the prefix