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Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Ean, * Ean Schuessler wrote: >We must come to terms with the fact that a Debian Java policy cannot be >built with proprietary VMs in mind. It is already (debian java policy, chapter 2.1): |Packages that contain a runtime conforming to the Java 1.1 |specification should provide java1-runtim

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Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Ben Burton
> Therefore we need alternatives for each combination of virtual packages: > VM -> Provides: net, nio > -> provides alternatives for java-nio, java-net and java-nio-net Wouldn't this mean that if a JVM provides k packages of the form java.*, then it must provide 2^k different virtual packages? T

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Ben, * Ben Burton wrote: >> -> provides alternatives for java-nio, java-net and java-nio-net >Wouldn't this mean that if a JVM provides k packages of the form java.*, >then it must provide 2^k different virtual packages? This could easily >be of the order of thousands of virtual packages to

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Ross Burton
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 21:35, Jan Schulz wrote: > Jan, never much bothered about lizensing... Note that Sun *do* care about licensing, and are willing to approach anyone who breaches their terms. Thus anyone doing open-source Java work has to be very careful. Ross -- Ross Burton

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Ross, * Ross Burton wrote: >On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 21:35, Jan Schulz wrote: >> Jan, never much bothered about lizensing... >Note that Sun *do* care about licensing, and are willing to approach >anyone who breaches their terms. >Thus anyone doing open-source Java work has to be very careful.

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> I will still ask, that all 'java' alteratives (kaffe, gcj, etc) will > >> add as much API to their bootclasspath as possible. > >I can only speak for kaffe, but we are gradually trying to merge i

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >but the other, much greater part of the problem is application writers who > >assume that the whole world uses sun's jdk. Thus they muck around with > >$JAVA_HOME, try to load sun.* classes, try to

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >but the other, much greater part of the problem is application writers who > >assume that the whole world uses sun's jdk. Thus they muck around with > >$JAVA_HOME, try to load sun.* classes, try to

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >thanks for taking the time to write a well thought-out, and pointed > >response. I wasn't sure whether my reply was a bit vitriolic ;) > > :) This discussion is nothing against being 'Proponent' of a

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan. --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Ean, > > * Ean Schuessler wrote: > >We must come to terms with the fact that a Debian Java policy cannot be > >built with proprietary VMs in mind. > > It is already (debian java policy, chapter 2.1): > |Packages that contain a runtime

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
hi Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Ross, > Anyway, I'm quite biased, as until now I was only a 'consumer', and > this and other 'unfree' lizenses never happend to limit what I wanted > to do. Are you sure you've read Sun's license? ;) > I might need a bit debian-legal re

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Dalibor, Just a short reply. I'm running out of time... :) And BTW: no need to CC me. I hope I have set the required headers... * Dalibor Topic wrote: >In any case, you'd end up doing a lot of work, with little practical value. >Just like many jakarta apps come with tons of differently vers

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Dalibor, * Dalibor Topic wrote: >> :) This discussion is nothing against being 'Proponent' of a new >> german newsgroup... >ouch, i sense frustration ;) It started by a 'Request for Discussion (RfD)' to split the de.*.StarOffice group and ended in a 905 messages (groups.google) long discuss

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Dalibor, * Dalibor Topic wrote: >>>class if they don't appear on the command line. Well, surprise, >>>kaffe's java compiler, kjc, does not, and there is no spec saying a >>>compiler needs to do it. >> IMO, in this cases its better to go with 'everybody'... This should be >> a one line change

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Ben Burton
Just a note: > People will always complain, as long as the free java implementations > are not equivalent to sun's on all accounts. Frankly, as long as they > don't want to put the little extra effort, and work with us to fix the > issues (for example by implementing and contributing the missing

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Ean, * Ean Schuessler wrote: >We must come to terms with the fact that a Debian Java policy cannot be >built with proprietary VMs in mind. It is already (debian java policy, chapter 2.1): |Packages that contain a runtime conforming to the Java 1.1 |specification should provide java1-runtim

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Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Ben Burton
> Therefore we need alternatives for each combination of virtual packages: > VM -> Provides: net, nio > -> provides alternatives for java-nio, java-net and java-nio-net Wouldn't this mean that if a JVM provides k packages of the form java.*, then it must provide 2^k different virtual packages? T

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Ben, * Ben Burton wrote: >> -> provides alternatives for java-nio, java-net and java-nio-net >Wouldn't this mean that if a JVM provides k packages of the form java.*, >then it must provide 2^k different virtual packages? This could easily >be of the order of thousands of virtual packages to

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Ross Burton
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 21:35, Jan Schulz wrote: > Jan, never much bothered about lizensing... Note that Sun *do* care about licensing, and are willing to approach anyone who breaches their terms. Thus anyone doing open-source Java work has to be very careful. Ross -- Ross Burton

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >thanks for taking the time to write a well thought-out, and pointed > >response. I wasn't sure whether my reply was a bit vitriolic ;) > > :) This discussion is nothing against being 'Proponent' of a

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Ross, * Ross Burton wrote: >On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 21:35, Jan Schulz wrote: >> Jan, never much bothered about lizensing... >Note that Sun *do* care about licensing, and are willing to approach >anyone who breaches their terms. >Thus anyone doing open-source Java work has to be very careful.

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >but the other, much greater part of the problem is application writers who > >assume that the whole world uses sun's jdk. Thus they muck around with > >$JAVA_HOME, try to load sun.* classes, try to

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> I will still ask, that all 'java' alteratives (kaffe, gcj, etc) will > >> add as much API to their bootclasspath as possible. > >I can only speak for kaffe, but we are gradually trying to merge i

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >but the other, much greater part of the problem is application writers who > >assume that the whole world uses sun's jdk. Thus they muck around with > >$JAVA_HOME, try to load sun.* classes, try to

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan. --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Ean, > > * Ean Schuessler wrote: > >We must come to terms with the fact that a Debian Java policy cannot be > >built with proprietary VMs in mind. > > It is already (debian java policy, chapter 2.1): > |Packages that contain a runtime

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
hi Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Ross, > Anyway, I'm quite biased, as until now I was only a 'consumer', and > this and other 'unfree' lizenses never happend to limit what I wanted > to do. Are you sure you've read Sun's license? ;) > I might need a bit debian-legal re

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Dalibor, Just a short reply. I'm running out of time... :) And BTW: no need to CC me. I hope I have set the required headers... * Dalibor Topic wrote: >In any case, you'd end up doing a lot of work, with little practical value. >Just like many jakarta apps come with tons of differently vers

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Dalibor, * Dalibor Topic wrote: >> :) This discussion is nothing against being 'Proponent' of a new >> german newsgroup... >ouch, i sense frustration ;) It started by a 'Request for Discussion (RfD)' to split the de.*.StarOffice group and ended in a 905 messages (groups.google) long discuss

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Dalibor, * Dalibor Topic wrote: >>>class if they don't appear on the command line. Well, surprise, >>>kaffe's java compiler, kjc, does not, and there is no spec saying a >>>compiler needs to do it. >> IMO, in this cases its better to go with 'everybody'... This should be >> a one line change

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath

2003-08-30 Thread Ben Burton
Just a note: > People will always complain, as long as the free java implementations > are not equivalent to sun's on all accounts. Frankly, as long as they > don't want to put the little extra effort, and work with us to fix the > issues (for example by implementing and contributing the missing