Re: kaffe orphaned?

1999-09-08 Thread Mark W. Eichin
thumbs up for answering the question, thumbs down for *answering* the question instead of showing the novice where to find answers to this, and others :-) On your handy debian system, with the "developers-reference" package installed (if you're a developer, you had better have it installed or know

Re: Debian Java outlook/ Re: kaffe orphaned?

1999-09-10 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Yeah, I'd have to admit that "java versions of find/ls/posix.1" don't interest me at all (or any more than, for example, Ada95 or Forth versions do. A little less, because Ada95 ports are at least likely to be more accurate implementations of their specs, a mostly psychological advantage...) My "

Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-10 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Indeed, the main reason I'm lurking here (oops, guess I'm not just lurking anymore :-) is the hope that I'll notice when we reach the point of having a sufficient Free(libre) java environment, because of the rejoicing here... in the meantime (especially as I do more systems programming for which

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> Theory: the problem is only temporary > Practice: it's been temporary for 5 full years :( So we're about where C++ was in 1993. Not too bad, but people are less patient than they were then :-)

xalan, xerces, svgslides -- whence javax/xml/transform?

2001-03-15 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I'm trying to package (for my own use, unless it turns out the license permits otherwise, but it doesn't seem to) Sun's SVGslides system. This uses Apache FOP, Xalan, and Xerces... However, the version of xalan included in the FOP 0.17.0 release also includes javax/xml/parsers/ and javax/xml/trans

Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-10 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Indeed, the main reason I'm lurking here (oops, guess I'm not just lurking anymore :-) is the hope that I'll notice when we reach the point of having a sufficient Free(libre) java environment, because of the rejoicing here... in the meantime (especially as I do more systems programming for which

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-04 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> Theory: the problem is only temporary > Practice: it's been temporary for 5 full years :( So we're about where C++ was in 1993. Not too bad, but people are less patient than they were then :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

xalan, xerces, svgslides -- whence javax/xml/transform?

2001-03-15 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I'm trying to package (for my own use, unless it turns out the license permits otherwise, but it doesn't seem to) Sun's SVGslides system. This uses Apache FOP, Xalan, and Xerces... However, the version of xalan included in the FOP 0.17.0 release also includes javax/xml/parsers/ and javax/xml/tran