Re: Policy change proposal - JVMs Provides: requirements

2003-01-19 Thread Dalibor Topic
for my proposals, I think I'd do it this way: > > 1. Define exactly what requirements must be met > for JVM to be able > > to _legally_ provide java-virtual-machine, > java*-runtime etc. > > Then we can agree on that.

Re: Policy change proposal - JVMs Provides: requirements

2003-01-20 Thread Dalibor Topic
ople some graphs, to track progress, too ;) There is a perl script in the japhar CVS that can convert the output from mauve into html. Unfortunately, I can't do it. Most importantly because I'm a regular kaffe developer. I'd prefer to see someone more "vendor-independant

Re: Policy change proposal, Re: Bug#176628: sablevm: package incorrctly provides java1-runtime

2003-01-21 Thread Dalibor Topic
ld provide additional insurance to the users that the free VMs they got on their debian systems actually work for something ;) The downsides are probably many. As I said, I am not a debian developer, so I don't know if putting this additional burden of work on the maintainers

Re: Policy change proposal, Re: Bug#176628: sablevm: package incorrctly provides java1-runtime

2003-01-21 Thread Dalibor Topic
m not a debian maintainer, just a casual user, so my ideas should be treated with a big grain of salt. Choose what works best for debian and maintainers like yourself. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Aff

Re: Policy change proposal, Re: Bug#176628: sablevm: package incorrctly provides java1-runtime

2003-01-21 Thread Dalibor Topic
orks out of the box, and implementing all the missing functionality in all the free VMs out there ;) I assume (i.e. I don't know, and I don't feel like digging through years of debian-java archives) that prior to having a unified javax-runtime, debian has used a system like that. Why was

Re: Library problem with gnome|gtk-java?

2003-07-23 Thread Dalibor Topic
7;s code means you can't contribute to clean room efforts any more, so I one has to pick sides: help Blackdown with Sun's code, or help clean-room efforts to write powerpc jits [1] ;) [1] Kaffe-based JanosVM 1.0 has the beginning of a powerpc jitter. cheers, dalibor topic ___

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
Salut Arnaud, thanks for making an updated package for kaffe. Did you manage to get in touch with Ean? --- Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thenewupstreamreleasecloses #196867(Kaffe1.1.0 > available). According to Dalibor Topic (in the same bug

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
of time project, i believe that time would be better spent persuading the FSF and ASF to get together on their licenses and make either the GPL ASL compatible or the other way round. who kknows, maybe you won't waste the time and they get their ideals/egos out of the way and work out a compromi

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
its the community most is to get ASF and FSF to agree on mutually compatible licenses. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
start by looking there. But ... the FSF doesn't think that code licensed under a GPL incompatible license can be allowed to run on a GPLd VM (i.e. kaffe). So it may not be what debian wants/needs ;) cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBu

Re: [kaffe] Problem with the unofficial package of Arnaud Vandyck.

2003-08-23 Thread Dalibor Topic
omes with kaffe), or jikes. The simplest way to do it is to do ant -Dbuild.compiler=kjc though you can also store these settings in a .*rc file for ant, I think. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design

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

2003-08-28 Thread Dalibor Topic
cursively determine the 'class cloud' of an application. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

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

2003-08-28 Thread Dalibor Topic
cript snippet. Then you don't want to use a free virtual machine. you want to use Sun. There is no certified Java free VM and there won't be as long as sun's licensing policy doesn't change. As long as you don't have a certified java runtime, you can forget about not failing

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

2003-08-29 Thread Dalibor Topic
rying to get the rest covered by merging in other people's great GPL-compatible work into kaffe. javax.crypto is going to be problematic because of american ammunnition export laws, I guess. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Fre

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

2003-08-29 Thread Dalibor Topic
e first step. The second step is a permission based security architecture, with policy files, code signing and all that. There is no such thing in the free software java world (yet). Glasspath has laid some foundations , though. cheers, dalibor topic

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

2003-08-29 Thread Dalibor Topic
-j2sdk, will > make them at least useable from debian packages. Without any > improvment, it will become more and more messy, the more API changes > are between the original java2-runtime and, for example, 1.5. Yeah, but I don't really care about sun's java packages ;) If the

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 spea

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 > >$JAV

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 > >$JAV

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 i

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

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
ght to call it an 'API' ;) If an application uses anything beyound the java programming APIs, it is not portable by definition, not even between different releases by Sun. It may work by sheer luck, but it doesn't have to. As I said, sun has changed their 'API' to java and java

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

2003-08-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
that freedom is better than temporary comfort ;) Read up on some of the GNU philosophy on the gnu.org web pages, that should be a good start to learn more about the value of freedom as in speech ;) cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Si

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

2003-08-31 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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... Sorry about the CC:, I use to hit the reply all button automatically ;)

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

2003-08-31 Thread Dalibor Topic
writing useful bug reports are also great ways to contribute. Or participating in creation of a new java policy for debian ;) cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-08-31 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> * makes all our packages working with every JVM, which will run it: > >> . free ones > >> . unfree ones by a well defined API and a installer scri

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

2003-08-31 Thread Dalibor Topic
am, but java. By the way, how is C# handled in debian? They should have a similar set of problems: several incomplete free runtimes and an unfree commercial one. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

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

2003-09-02 Thread Dalibor Topic
s javac > behaviour, so it should make more existing scripts work out of the box > on Debian. -bootclasspath is somewhat tricky. I'm not sure how to do this with kjc, which is intergrated into kaffe. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! S

Re: info request about p2p framework (fwd)

2003-09-02 Thread Dalibor Topic
Ciao Stefano, Freenet releases that don't use NIO should run on latest kaffe (1.1.1), as well as Mark Wielaard's java bittorrent client snark. cheers, dalibor topic --- MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefano Maffulli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked me the following quest

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

2003-09-02 Thread Dalibor Topic
lasspath can increase application startup time, since the java API spec requires the system class loader to search linearly through the bootclasspath, system extensions, and the classpath. So I'd recommend against a default classpath setting. cheers, dalibor topic ___

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

2003-09-02 Thread Dalibor Topic
lasspath can increase application startup time, since the java API spec requires the system class loader to search linearly through the bootclasspath, system extensions, and the classpath. So I'd recommend against a default classpath setting. cheers, dalibor topic ___

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

2003-09-02 Thread Dalibor Topic
ffe/2002-August/040251.html for some information on different interpretations. As I said, it's up to debian-legal to figure out whether your bootclasspath scripts don;t violate licenses, IANAL. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free

Re: Gcj version of Jar

2003-09-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
with a jar tool written in C or C++ called fastjar. Kaffe comes with a jar tool written in java called, well, jar. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBS

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

2003-09-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> So when I write > >> kaffe -bootclasspath xerces.jar .. -cp ... Main > >> I can't do it, because its against the GPL/whetever License? > >I

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

2003-09-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> A precise interface should be discussed together. Off my head: > >> -classpath, -cp, -sourcepath, -O, -d, -g, -deprecation > >I'd remove a few thi

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

2003-09-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> Packages, which want to contribute a alternative for /usr/bin/java and its > >> manpage must provide java-runtime. The alternative must accept the option

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

2003-09-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
f abstract APIs write down what works. If it doesn't work, let people who need it to work investigate, and get in touch with the developers to fix the problems. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site desi

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

2003-09-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
too ... I think that codifying a status quo is such a good idea. It makes the policy obsolete quite quickly. I'd prefer a policy that tells maintainers to explicitely tells maintainers to test their packages with free VMs and mark those that work. cheers, dalibor topic _

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

2003-09-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
ists.debian.org/debian-java/2003/debian-java-200301/msg3.html If the packages need java, the executable, they should use whatever 'java' is in the PATH. If they need it to load sun.only.dedicated.morons.use.this.api.Main, then they are broken and need to be fixed. There

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

2003-09-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
nking stuff into a fake JAVA_HOME > structure. I doubt it. JAVA_HOME isn't specified anywhere by Sun AFAIK, nor what should be in there, or how it should work. It's just a part of the ugly java folklore, like trigraphs in C. ;) cheers, dalibor topic __

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

2003-09-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL states > >> that such things happen when you use JNI with GPL code. Anyway, I'm > >&g

Re: newer jikes may never get to testing (and thus stable)

2003-09-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
hem, > probably in their JVM/classpath packages. Wouldn't it be better to provide the wrappers as separate jikes-on-xyz packages, that would depend on both jikes and the VM/classpath package? jikes could depend on any one of the wrapper packages being installed, if that's possible with

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

2003-09-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >And finally, what's the effect of -classpath a.jar:b.jar supposed to > >be? How does it alter the class lookup? What about the current > >directory? Is

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

2003-09-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >If the packages need java, the executable, they should use whatever 'java' > is > >in the PATH. If they need it to load > >sun.only.dedicated.moro

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

2003-09-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >I doubt it. JAVA_HOME isn't specified anywhere by Sun AFAIK, nor what should > be > >in there, or how it should work. It's just a part of the ug

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

2003-09-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > I wanted to say, that you have a interface for the 'unfree' ones and > this interface will work, even if you have 'not working' JVM > installed. Th

Re: newer jikes may never get to testing (and thus stable)

2003-09-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Matt, --- Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:11:06AM -0700, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > > > I used to be very busy/without net during last months but I am back. > > > And attacking ;-) > > > > > > The problem

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

2003-09-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
is system > prevents to mistake kaffe for a sun compatible JVM-1.4. Could you elaborate on this one, as in give an example where kaffe can be mistaken for Sun's JVM 1.4 why such protection is needed? cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBu

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

2003-09-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
y to fix it. That's currently happening between freenet, gcj and kaffe developer communities, for example. I hope the result will be a very good java.nio implementation. I think the best thing about free software, is the opportunity to collaborate freely with others to build something exci

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
icy is an improvement to the old situation. Who knows, one day I may end up being a Debian developer instead of just being a user, and then I don't want to have to install non-free software to make sure that my packages work with it, because of a policy that mandates using non-free sowtware

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

2003-09-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >Why do you assume familiarity with some command line synopsis? The effect of > >-classpath a.jar:b.jar for example can have different effects depending on > the >

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

2003-09-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > [rant about JAVA_HOME] > >I don't think that's a good foundation to build a policy on ;) > > Is the current proposal better? Much better, actually, althou

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

2003-09-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> I wanted to say, that you have a interface for the 'unfree' ones and > >> this interface will work, even if you have 'not working' JVM >

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

2003-09-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> I much for this, but it will need 'protection', so that this system > >> prevents to mistake kaffe for a sun compatible JVM-1.4. > >Could you e

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
s software is available by the debian > packaging system. How do you want to provide the unfree VMs if you don't force the user to download a bunch of packages? Should they be linked into the kernel? ;) I don't see what is so hard about installing kaffe, or sable VM, or whatever

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
Yuck. What does this tools.jar provide? nothing in the API spec. Some badly written packages use it to access internal classes of Sun's implementation, even though Sun tells them not to. And then the cry goes to free VMs to support such braindead code, since everyone (i.e.

Re: JAVA_HOME and ant

2003-09-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
eally useful for main is it? > > IMO, it isn't fit for main yet: the javadoc task won't work if kaffe > doesn't link a bin/javadoc into java.home. Thats at least how I read > the code. Stefan, have you tried that? kaffe doesn't come with a real javadoc tool yet. I&

Re: JAVA_HOME and ant

2003-09-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
ent the undocumented classes, because, well, they are undocumented and are not part of the API. ;) cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
the bin/java unfree interfaces. bzzt! ;) this 'let's make free software in debian depend on non-free software' proposal is incompatible with debian's goal, afaik. turn that into a 'may depend on the unfree interfaces ' and I'll be happier with it. In other ne

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

2003-09-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >The definition of what's to be expected as normal keeps changing all the > time > >in the java world, as I'm trying to make clear with my questions on your > >in

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
just backport the build > >tools also? > > Yes, but why should I if I have a full sun J2SDK installed already? Why does that matter? I have a car already, why don't they build a highway to my house? ;) > Just for the sake of downloading 10+ MB again? It will hardly matter c

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
ith. They should support the VMs that work with their packages. I mean, I like kaffe, for example, but I don't demand that debian makes a policy that requires all java package maintainers to support my favorite VM. If I care about running a particular application of kaffe, I don't see

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
x27;t think we are that far apart from each other. I believe the discussion on debian-java has been quite fruitful so far in exposing some weaknesses of the proposals and paving the road to improvements (and Jan has done a great job on improving the policy proposal when the arguments from the

Re: JAVA_HOME and ant

2003-09-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > Ok, I'm also good at philosophical nitpicking :) Great! :) > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >--- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > [...working ant...]How do you define normall

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

2003-09-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> '/usr/bin/java'. If sablevm and kaffe are installed and I depend on > >> kaffe, but sablevm installs a higher priority, then I'm fd up. &g

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-10 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > [kdelibs4 problems] > >> all cases to '1', but the latest qt version in unstable is '2'. I don't > >> think that anyone bothers to t

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-10 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >> I don't do it. I just see the need, that some people will want to run > >> java apps on a unfree VM. This propsal makes this possible. > >But it is a

Re: Compiling java debian packages with free tools

2003-09-11 Thread Dalibor Topic
yes, but as a free java environment developer, I'm biased ;) Though I don't think it should be a severe bug preventing a package from entering testing. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design softwar

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-11 Thread Dalibor Topic
> strength to bug reports to include another VM. I think that's a good compromise. I'd make it a 'must', though, for quality assurance reasons. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design soft

Re: JAVA_HOME and ant

2003-09-11 Thread Dalibor Topic
Konichiwa Takashi, --- Takashi Okamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: JAVA_HOME and ant > Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:50:57 -0700 (PDT) > > I think the code in question (javadoc task) is going to be rewritten to use &g

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-11 Thread Dalibor Topic
m, so don't expect some bigger 'answer > round' or a updated proposal during the next two days. I'll be back on > friday evening or the weekend... Good luck for your exam, I'm looking forward for a new round of discussion next week. > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >G

Re: [PROPOSAL] 3. RfD on new debian java policy

2003-09-12 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor, > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > >I don't think you could force a maintainer to include a VM in his > >package list, as you can't force packagers to trust people ('so it > >works, eh? did you

Re: [PROPOSAL] 4. RfD for a new debian java policy

2003-09-14 Thread Dalibor Topic
If anything breaks, please work with the maintainers and the upstream to fix it. Debian should be the best platform to use java on, and you can help this effort by making sure your package doesn't break things.' But all in all, I must say that the policy has turned out quite nice faster t

Re: findjava requirement (was: 4. RfD for a new debian java policy)

2003-09-21 Thread Dalibor Topic
I wouldn't mandate that a VM has a include/something dir. Instead the policy shoudl advise programs building with JNI to include both $JAVA_HOME/include/ and $JAVA_HOME/include/linux if the build process is supported with sun's JDK. cheers, dalibor topic

Re: findjava requirement

2003-09-22 Thread Dalibor Topic
ill-defined ad-hoc 'standard' that isn't even supported by Sun. Programs that rely on JAVA_HOME to be able to access internals of the VM are inherently broken, they just start to notice it on free VMs ;) cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo

Re: Installing a Java VM on Debian

2003-10-05 Thread Dalibor Topic
]/msg03287.html . Make sure you read the whole thread. It should also run with the upcoming kaffe 1.1.2. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: findjava is the question, is fixjava the answer?

2003-10-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
when an application doesn't run, it's not because someone forgot to set -Xmx128M, but because some amateur programmer checked in some code that uses sun.* classes, and sun changed their internals in the meantime. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
to do the work? then the VM package maintainers could independently update 'findjava-kaffe' from 'findjava-sablevm', while keeping the calling interface for the main 'findjava' script. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#212863: finjava: a tentative summary

2003-10-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Ean, thanks for your quick reply! Ean Schuessler wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 12:17, Dalibor Topic wrote: For example, it seems to be impossible for a non-root user, to overwrite the java alternative, whereas the proposed scheme allows the user to specify a different (maybe even working

Re: findjava is the question, is fixjava the answer?

2003-10-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
T. Alexander Popiel wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Things like -bootclasspath are only used by broken by design applications, anyway. It's -X*bootclasspath nowadays with Sun's VM, and it's there for

Re: findjava is the question, is fixjava the answer?

2003-10-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
, the projects containing broken and unportable java code will suffer, and lose mind share. I see gcj as a major driving factor there. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: findjava is the question, is fixjava the answer?

2003-10-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
or 'org.apache' or whatever the xerces prefix is? Lookup docs for Thread.setContextClassLoader , it could help there. The core libraries have no business depending on or including separately distributable packages like xerces... but that's a rant for another day. Agreed. cheers, dal

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-10-29 Thread Dalibor Topic
library is linked during runtime to the GPLd interpreter via LGPLd libraries, how come Ximian is allowed to ship it under the weaker-thank-GPL X license, thereby apprently violating FSFs position on GPLd interpreters? cheers, dalibor topic [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreter

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-10-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Jan Schulz wrote: Hallo Dalibor, * Dalibor Topic wrote: * figure out how you want to interpret the GPL in this case. The rest follows from that. Problems not touched: *execution* of GPL-incompatible code using GPLed libs and/or GPLed JVMs is beyond the scope of this message. Could you please

Re: eclipse packages for !i386 platforms for sarge release

2003-10-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
playing with it, and has something to show: http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2003-October/044313.html so ... it's not fully there yet, but it can be done ;) cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Dalibor Topic
running is clearly not covered under GPL, your argument doesn't work. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Dalibor Topic
Salut Etienne, Etienne Gagnon wrote: Dalibor Topic wrote: GPL says: Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. ... ... As running is clearly not covered under GPL, your argument doesn't work. Modificatio

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-02 Thread Dalibor Topic
on 'dogmas' from above to regulate the interpretation. cheers, dalibor topic [1] Given that most replys I've seen here didn't fully support FSFs view. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kaffe's GPL and GPL incompatible Java software [Was: Undistributable java in main]

2003-11-02 Thread Dalibor Topic
ffering interpretations of what constitutes a derivative work, but instead go on about a hypothetical case to prove your point. That is a very bad way to present your case, in my opinion. Dalibor Topic wrote: The language is defined by the Java Language Specification. But the virtual m

Re: Kaffe's GPL and GPL incompatible Java software [Was: Undistributable java in main]

2003-11-02 Thread Dalibor Topic
Etienne Gagnon wrote: Dalibor Topic wrote: It would have been nice if you had made the arguments of each side clear, before attacking my position. The discussion has not taken place on debian-legal, but on debian-java. I appreciate the way Gadek presented both sides of the previuos argument

Re: statcvs java error

2003-11-11 Thread Dalibor Topic
ll be able to run it. Helpers for hacking on kaffe are always welcome ;) cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kaffe in testing

2003-11-12 Thread Dalibor Topic
sting, and the next debian release. I've CC:ed him on this mail, too. If Ean approves, he could help out with kaffe packaging. I think Marko already applied to become a debian maintainer, and is, AFAIK, currently packaging the ATI binary drivers. cheers, dalibor topic [1] Beside goi

Re: Kaffe in testing

2003-11-12 Thread Dalibor Topic
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[mark's edition] [RFC] Upcoming Apache Software Foundation License changes

2003-11-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
your grandgrandchildren may thank you ;) thanks, dalibor topic [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/proposed/ [2] http://www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/JSPA.pdf [3] http://www.apache.org/licenses/proposed/LICENSE-2.0.txt [4] http://www.apache.org/licenses/proposed/ri-license.txt [5] http://www.apach

Re: [mark's edition] [RFC] Upcoming Apache Software Foundation License changes

2003-11-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
This bird got out too quickly. ;) cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[RFC] Upcoming Apache Software Foundation License changes

2003-11-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
iling list, who asks developers to take a look at the RI and TCK licenses, as the ASF hasn't received many comments on those. thanks, dalibor topic [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/proposed/ [2] http://www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/JSPA.pdf [3] http://www.apache.org/licenses/propo

Re: Kaffe in testing

2003-11-20 Thread Dalibor Topic
d. And please forward the patches you get upstream, if they still apply to the CVS. It's quite annoying to have to do the stupid wrapped string compiler error patch for gcc 3.3, only to discover that someone half-did it already for debian. We need more contributors anyway ;) cheers, dalibor

Re: Kaffe in testing

2003-11-20 Thread Dalibor Topic
Pierre Machard wrote: Hi, On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:23:44PM +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote: [...] - Tell me whether you think upgrading to 1.1.2, 1.1.3, etc. etc. while we are in freeze is legitimate or whether we need to be backporting patches from CVS. 1.1.3 is due in 2 weeks. It will be

Re: Eclipse

2003-12-01 Thread Dalibor Topic
/kaffe/2003-November/044406.html cheers, dalibor topic [1] The wishlist for the next versions can be found here: http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2003-November/044431.html Progress is happening gradually, and could happen faster if we had more volunteers [2] ;) [2] Especially DocBook, Ant, Maven

Re: Eclipse

2003-12-01 Thread Dalibor Topic
ng out with the GNU Classpath project. One of the best ways to do that is to help with the kaffe transition to GNU Classpath, of course ;) cheers, dalibor topic [1] http://www.kaffe.org/~robilad/tomcat-4.1.27-screenshot.png [2] http://www.kaffe.org/~robilad/eXist-0.9.2-screenshot.png [3] http://w

Re: Trouble with VM?

2003-12-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
et certain clean-room conditions. They are getter better every day thanks to many people who decided to stop waiting for Sun to make java free and take the necessary steps themselves. You could be one of us. ;) cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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