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

2003-09-01 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Ben, * Ben Burton wrote: >> Anyway, this gcj isn't in debian yet. >Or are you talking about a different version of gcj? Or am I >misunderstanding your comment completely? They (RH eclipse guys at least, don't know about rhug) are useing a higly patched version of GCJ. This probably wont be

Re: CDBS class for Ant

2003-09-01 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
I'll be on holliday until september 9. Stefan, will your ant*.mk be included in the official cdbs package? I plan to move all my package that work with ant to cdbs. Some will be able to go to main! ;) I'm VAC but still a subscriber of the list. Many thanks for the good job! -- Arnaud.

Moving packages to main, was Re: CDBS class for Ant

2003-09-01 Thread Stefan Gybas
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: I'll be on holliday until september 9. Stefan, will your ant*.mk be included in the official cdbs package? Yes, they are part of CDBS since version 0.4.5.3, so if you want to make use of ant.mk, you need to add a versioned build dependency to your package. I plan to m

Re: Moving packages to main, was Re: CDBS class for Ant

2003-09-01 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 17:40:16 +0200 Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > I'll be on holliday until september 9. Stefan, will your ant*.mk be > > included in the official cdbs package? > > Yes, they are part of CDBS since version 0.4.5.3, so if you want to ma

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

2003-09-01 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo debian-java, After getting all the resonses for the first part of this proposal, I will try to modify the aproach. I don't think that this will make it for the sarge release, so I went for a some more changes, which should be discussed before implemented... I still think that we can do a po

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

2003-09-01 Thread Daniel Bonniot
IMO, /usr/bin/javac is mainly used for hello world programms and almost nowher ein scripts, so it's not really nessesary to have strictly the same comandline options (man pacges will be under update alternatives as well) javac can also be called during package building. Unless a specific compiler

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

2003-09-01 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Daniel, * Daniel Bonniot wrote: >javac can also be called during package building. Unless a specific >compiler (e.g. /usr/bin/jikes) is always used, but isn't that a burden >for users rebuilding packages? What interface do you suggest? The discussion her pretty much showed, that you can't

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

2003-09-01 Thread Ben Burton
> javac can also be called during package building. FWIW, I think having a package build relying on /usr/bin/javac is a very bad idea. You want to be absolutely sure that a package builds out of the box, and IMHO this means you should explicitly build-depend upon *and* call a complier that you k

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

2003-09-01 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Ben, * Ben Burton wrote: >> Anyway, this gcj isn't in debian yet. >Or are you talking about a different version of gcj? Or am I >misunderstanding your comment completely? They (RH eclipse guys at least, don't know about rhug) are useing a higly patched version of GCJ. This probably wont be

Re: CDBS class for Ant

2003-09-01 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
I'll be on holliday until september 9. Stefan, will your ant*.mk be included in the official cdbs package? I plan to move all my package that work with ant to cdbs. Some will be able to go to main! ;) I'm VAC but still a subscriber of the list. Many thanks for the good job! -- Arnaud.

Moving packages to main, was Re: CDBS class for Ant

2003-09-01 Thread Stefan Gybas
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: I'll be on holliday until september 9. Stefan, will your ant*.mk be included in the official cdbs package? Yes, they are part of CDBS since version 0.4.5.3, so if you want to make use of ant.mk, you need to add a versioned build dependency to your package. I plan to mo

Re: Moving packages to main, was Re: CDBS class for Ant

2003-09-01 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 17:40:16 +0200 Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > I'll be on holliday until september 9. Stefan, will your ant*.mk be > > included in the official cdbs package? > > Yes, they are part of CDBS since version 0.4.5.3, so if you want to ma

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

2003-09-01 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo debian-java, After getting all the resonses for the first part of this proposal, I will try to modify the aproach. I don't think that this will make it for the sarge release, so I went for a some more changes, which should be discussed before implemented... I still think that we can do a po

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

2003-09-01 Thread Daniel Bonniot
IMO, /usr/bin/javac is mainly used for hello world programms and almost nowher ein scripts, so it's not really nessesary to have strictly the same comandline options (man pacges will be under update alternatives as well) javac can also be called during package building. Unless a specific compiler

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

2003-09-01 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Daniel, * Daniel Bonniot wrote: >javac can also be called during package building. Unless a specific >compiler (e.g. /usr/bin/jikes) is always used, but isn't that a burden >for users rebuilding packages? What interface do you suggest? The discussion her pretty much showed, that you can't

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

2003-09-01 Thread Ben Burton
> javac can also be called during package building. FWIW, I think having a package build relying on /usr/bin/javac is a very bad idea. You want to be absolutely sure that a package builds out of the box, and IMHO this means you should explicitly build-depend upon *and* call a complier that you k