On the use of pre-compiled classes in packages

1999-12-06 Thread Julio Maia
Regarding the following bugs related to some of my packges: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/49/49557.html http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/49/49688.html I'd like to have a direction to follow regarding the use of pre-compiled classes in Debian packages. In other w

Re: On the use of pre-compiled classes in packages

1999-12-06 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 6 December 1999, at 5 h 47, the keyboard of Julio Maia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to have a direction to follow regarding the use of pre-compiled > classes in Debian packages. In other words, is really necessary to compile > all the classes that go inside a Debian package,

Re: On the use of pre-compiled classes in packages

1999-12-06 Thread Stefan Gybas
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > IMHO, it is not a Java-specific issue and I would post it on debian-project. I think it is Java-specific as JAR files are architecture independent (unlike .o and .a files). I also have a Java package (GNUJSP) which just uses the upstream JAR instead of recompiling. I

Re: On the use of pre-compiled classes in packages

1999-12-06 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 6 December 1999, at 10 h 49, the keyboard of Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it is Java-specific as JAR files are architecture independent (unlike > ..o and .a files). It changes nothing to the issues of freedom vs. non-freedom. > 1. building the package is a lot f