Re: Towards Java Libre

2006-05-22 Thread Michael Koch
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 01:02:03AM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tom Marble a écrit : > > Arnaud: > > > > We haven't had an opportunity to meet yet as > > so many things have happened so quickly. > > Hi Tom, welcome on debian-java ;-) > > > L

Re: priorities for java alternatives

2006-05-22 Thread Dalibor Topic
Matthias Klose cs.tu-berlin.de> writes: > > now that non-free java jre's and jdk's are available in non-free, we > should get some agreement about the priorities for the different tools > and environments. some proposals: > > - things in main have higher priorities than things in contrib > an

Bug#365408: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Drop java*-runtime/compiler, create classpath-jre/jdk and java-jre/jdk

2006-05-22 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray a écrit : [...] > A virtual package name is a functional label, not a product name. > Java is the name of an island and a natural language too. > I'm surprised if Sun can prevent use of a word in this way. A function that is used to call a run

[Fwd: Bug#368542: ITP: libcolt-java -- libraries for scientific and technical computing in Java]

2006-05-22 Thread Charles Fry
I just packaged Colt, "a set of Open Source Libraries for High Performance Scientific and Technical Computing in Java." A preliminary version of the package is at: http://debian.frogcircus.org/packages/ As a Java library, I think it makes sense as part of the Debian Java Packaging Project. Any

Bug#365408: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Drop java*-runtime/compiler, create classpath-jre/jdk and java-jre/jdk

2006-05-22 Thread Charles Fry
> > A virtual package name is a functional label, not a product name. > > Java is the name of an island and a natural language too. > > I'm surprised if Sun can prevent use of a word in this way. > > A function that is used to call a runtime, compiler, etc of the Java(tm) > language! > > Java? i

Bug#365408: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Drop java*-runtime/compiler, create classpath-jre/jdk and java-jre/jdk

2006-05-22 Thread MJ Ray
Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MJ Ray a €crit : > [...] > > A virtual package name is a functional label, not a product name. > > Java is the name of an island and a natural language too. > > I'm surprised if Sun can prevent use of a word in this way. > > A function that is used to call a