Re: The problem of core classes for Java compilers (Was: Bug#44462: jikes: jikes does not find core classes

1999-09-08 Thread Mike Goldman
> CLASSPATH to indicate where it can find core classes. > <http://www.research.ibm.com/jikes/jikes.htm#jikespath> directly violates > Debian policy about environment variables. > > Mike Goldman, jikes' maintainer, suggests that Java virtual machines put the > core cla

Re: kaffe orphaned?

1999-09-08 Thread Mike Goldman
First of all, I would like to apologize for stepping on your toes. It was rude of me to not communicate with you before providing an NMU, and I will try to be more considerate in the future. However, and please do not take this as an attack upon you personally, the reason I felt that an NMU was n

Off-topic: oolong

1999-11-09 Thread Mike Goldman
For those who are interested, the oolong project began as a discussion between Ean Schuessler and I regarding his JFORK proposal. Rather than creating a nearly compatible but DFSG-free implementation of Java itself, I figured that a fork should offer some actual improvement for systems programming