Re: apt and java

2004-10-14 Thread spam2004
Hi. Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Omry Yadan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have emailed sun today, quering if they approve an automatic installer which will get the bin from their site, and execute it - showing the user the license as it does that, and installing if the user approved. I described to them

Re: apt and java

2004-10-14 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Arnaud, * Arnaud Vandyck wrote: >> 3. Azareus - not in main, contrib, or non-free. >If you have some time, you can contact Shaun Jackman ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and help: >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=215127 And resolve the problem, that it is GPLed, but requires a GPL inco

Re: apt and java

2004-10-14 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi Arnaud, On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:22:02PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > If you succeed, can you contact ATI to ask them to give the specs of the > radeon-mobility 9600, because it's impossible for me to have my > powerbook to sleep :( OT: Why don't you suspend to disk? Cheers, -- Guido

Re: apt and java

2004-10-14 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:54:43 +0200, Omry Yadan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dalibor 'Who should fix bugs instead of spending his time in flamewars' Topic said: >> I fail to see a proof of the 'it costs debian users' assertion you >> made in this respons

Re: apt and java

2004-10-11 Thread Dalibor Topic
Omry Yadan inter.net.il> writes: > >I fail to see a proof of the 'it costs debian users' assertion you made in > >this response. > > > > > Quite simple: > 1. Eclipse - not in main, contrib, or non-free. Which has *nothing* to do with its ability to run on free runtimes. I'm sure Jan would app

Re: apt and java

2004-10-11 Thread Omry Yadan
How much does making 'good java programs' run on free runtimes 'cost' Debian users? ;) Now, that depends on the maturity of free runtimes. both in terms of stability (which I don't know anything about yet), and in terms of level of compatibility to sun's jvm's provided API's. I fa

Re: apt and java

2004-10-09 Thread Daniel Bonniot
However I guess most Dabian users are in fact using the i386 version of Debian. (Are there any figures about that?) http://popcon.debian.org/ (middle of the page) Daniel -- The Nice programming language: http://nice.sf.net

Re: apt and java

2004-10-08 Thread spam2004
Hi list! Omry Yadan wrote: So let me state again what I am after: To provide users with the ability to install most java programs seamlessly, today. [e.g. by using Sun's JDKs] Problem here is, that I'm not sure if the Sun JDKs would reach _most_ debian users. It was already stated, that Debian

Re: apt and java

2004-10-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
Omry Yadan inter.net.il> writes: > > Dalibor Topic wrote: > >How much does making 'good java programs' run on free runtimes 'cost' Debian > >users? ;) > > > > > Now, that depends on the maturity of free runtimes. > both in terms of stability (which I don't know anything about yet), and > in t

Re: apt and java

2004-10-07 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Tue, 05 Oct 2004 00:52:10 +0200, Omry Yadan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are exaggerating, java is compiled for Linux, and working > natively. yes, sun does not officially support debian, but its pretty > much guarantied to work on a any system which is as Linux as the > intersection between

Re: apt and java

2004-10-07 Thread Omry Yadan
Dalibor Topic wrote: Omry Yadan inter.net.il> writes: aking Java and Debian closer is simple: use free runtimes, report bugs & help us make them better than Sun's Java implementation is all respects that you care about. This approach is costing Debian users many good java programs which r

Re: apt and java

2004-10-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
Omry Yadan inter.net.il> writes: > >Making Java and Debian closer is simple: use free runtimes, report bugs & > >help us make them better than Sun's Java implementation is all respects that > > you care about. > > > > > > This approach is costing Debian users many good java programs which rel

Re: apt and java

2004-10-04 Thread Omry Yadan
A question comes into my mind: Was the discussion focused on how to get make java and Debian closer, or on how to avoid the horrendous sun licensing? Making Java and Debian closer is simple: use free runtimes, report bugs & help us make them better than Sun's Java implementation is all resp

Re: apt and java

2004-10-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
Omry Yadan inter.net.il> writes: > A question comes into my mind: > Was the discussion focused on how to get make java and Debian closer, or > on how to avoid the horrendous sun licensing? Making Java and Debian closer is simple: use free runtimes, report bugs & help us make them better than S

[OT] Re: apt and java

2004-10-03 Thread Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi
* Damien Raude-Morvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-10-03 22:42:40 +0200]: > It's really funny to hear Sun saying ? Java is portable ? : they bring us > x86/linux x86/win32 x86/sparc and amd64/linux... BSD ? m68k ? ppc ? I think they mean the 'compile once, run everywhere' thing, where everywhere me

Re: apt and java

2004-10-03 Thread spam2004
Hi. Omry Yadan wrote: This is all very confusing to new users. It definetely is. I had the same problems a few month ago :-( Having to create a package is kind of awkward, since I just want to install someone else's packages. [...] I know the process of creating the package with java-package, or s

Re: apt and java

2004-10-03 Thread Omry Yadan
Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: Hello, Le Dimanche 3 Octobre 2004 22:03, Omry Yadan a écrit : This is all very confusing to new users. Having to create a package is kind of awkward, since I just want to install someone else's packages. is it not possible to bundle sun's Java as a basic package (in co

Re: apt and java

2004-10-03 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Hello, Le Dimanche 3 Octobre 2004 22:03, Omry Yadan a écrit : > This is all very confusing to new users. > Having to create a package is kind of awkward, since I just want to > install someone else's packages. > is it not possible to bundle sun's Java as a basic package (in contrib, > for example)

Re: apt and java

2004-10-03 Thread Omry Yadan
This is all very confusing to new users. Having to create a package is kind of awkward, since I just want to install someone else's packages. is it not possible to bundle sun's Java as a basic package (in contrib, for example), and allow users to choose which java they want to install the free k

Re: apt and java

2004-10-01 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Le Vendredi 1 Octobre 2004 18:37, Rishabh Manocha a écrit : > I have this problem too..apt usually tries to install kaffe when I am > installing a java program even though i have sun VM(not thru apt). Like > the other day I was trying to install ant and it said that it will > install kaffe too and

Re: apt and java

2004-10-01 Thread Rishabh Manocha
I have this problem too..apt usually tries to install kaffe when I am installing a java program even though i have sun VM(not thru apt). Like the other day I was trying to install ant and it said that it will install kaffe too and hence I had to abort. Is there any way around this?? thanks On 01/1

Re: apt and java

2004-10-01 Thread Omry Yadan
I noticed that tomcat4 tries to install kaffe. I have already installed sun's jdk 1.5, and thats the java version I want to use. can I make apt use it? Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote: * Omry Yadan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-10-01 15:12:28 +0200]: how can I install java applications (tomcat, aza

Re: apt and java

2004-10-01 Thread Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi
* Omry Yadan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-10-01 15:12:28 +0200]: > how can I install java applications (tomcat, azaeurus etc) through apt? apt-get install tomcat4 Azaeurus is not available as .deb AFAIK. Cheers, Laszlo/GCS

apt and java

2004-10-01 Thread Omry Yadan
how can I install java applications (tomcat, azaeurus etc) through apt?