Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-08 Thread per
t up so it uses the standard Java extensions directories. Tweaking some shell scripts or sym links might work. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-08 Thread per
java respectively (or whatever becomes the policy). It is seems better to have a single extensions directory (pair), rather than two. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-08 Thread per
t up so it uses the standard Java extensions directories. Tweaking some shell scripts or sym links might work. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packaging jars vs. classes

2000-11-08 Thread per
java respectively (or whatever becomes the policy). It is seems better to have a single extensions directory (pair), rather than two. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#156407: ITP: free-java-sdk -- Complete Java SDK environmentconsising of free Java tools

2002-08-13 Thread Per Bothner
e's the whole Sable project (which has >>brought the Soot bytecode analysis framework to the world) behind >>SableVM. This means at least 3 faculty-researcher and their graduate >>and undergradute students. I welcome the SableVM to consider whether their tchniques and code cou

Re: comments on proposed java policy

2002-08-29 Thread Per Bothner
command* isn't a Java runtme, gcj comes with an associated interpreter and runtime. The command 'gij' is intended to be able to replace the 'java' command. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Java policy

2002-09-02 Thread Per Bothner
irectories", it *should* use /usr/share/java/ext as the default such directory. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JNI Installation Directories

2002-10-05 Thread Per Bothner
Ben Burton wrote: >IIRC the issue of automatically including every jar in /usr/share/java has >already been hashed out on this list and decided to be a bad idea (too much >overhead, poor control over conflicts, etc), thought I could be wrong. > I did on September 2 make the following suggestio

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-22 Thread Per Bothner
Stefan Gybas wrote: Sure, but since neither classpath nor libgcj* provide the virtual runtime package Why doesn't libgcj provide the virtual runtime package? It seems like it should. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-22 Thread Per Bothner
uot;core classes and JVM" (including ClassLoaders and JNI) for years. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-22 Thread Per Bothner
Stephen Zander wrote: >>>>>"Per" == Per Bothner writes: Per> libgcj has had "core classes and JVM" (including ClassLoaders Per> and JNI) for years. The why doesn't the package 'Provide: java1-runtime'? Possibly a different co

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-22 Thread Per Bothner
ifferent implementations, especially when there is native code, for which GCJ prefers CNI over JNI. Bottom line: Classpath is "upstream" to libgcj, but from a Debian packaging point of view there is no relationship. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Per Bothner
g gij. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bothner.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-07 Thread Per Bothner
ECTED] As an alternative, as Ean is/was head of Brainfood, you could try contacting Brainfood and asking them: http://www.brainfood.com/aboutus/contactus.jsp A phone call may be worthwhile. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bothner.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Per Bothner
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: A phone call may be worthwhile. Is it a joke?! :-| Why should it be a joke? If you want to contact someone and are having trouble contacting them by email, but you have a phone number for their place of business, then a phone is a very practical tool. -- --Per

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

2003-08-28 Thread Per Bothner
ernative JVM. If the latter claims to support all JDK 1.x features, then it will *probably* run, but you still have to test it. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bothner.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

2003-08-29 Thread Per Bothner
u can also "java-compatible-with-jdk1.3" but no Free JVM are likely to satisfy such a constraint anytime soon. (compilatible-with-jdk1.1 is getting close, though!) -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bothner.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: eclipse packages for !i386 platforms for sarge release

2003-10-29 Thread Per Bothner
/ http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2003-08/msg4.html -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bothner.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free Java (Was: Trouble with VM?)

2003-12-03 Thread Per Bothner
date all the pointers. That is a very hard problem. Furthermore, it has been claimed that JNI also in practice requires a conservative collector. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bothner.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread Per Bothner
processor wit extra functionality. For example many of the JNI callback functions are just wrappers for CNI functions, so a simple conversion can convert those, possibly removing the need for the JNIEnv variable. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bothner.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [kaffe] Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-11 Thread Per Bothner
of dual JNI-or-CNI mechanism. I.e. explore ways to reduce the overhead of JNI when CNI is avaliable. I suggested one approach in my previous email (which may be waiting for moderator approval on the kaffe and java-gnome lists). -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bot

Re: Status of Free Java Environment?

1999-12-16 Thread Per Bothner
work. One problem is different licenses. That does not preclude someone donating the same or similar code to all of them, but it does preclude whole-sale merging. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: Status of Free Java Environment?

1999-12-16 Thread Per Bothner
that I've been able to find goes into any depth about the text stuff. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: Status of Free Java Environment?

1999-12-16 Thread Per Bothner
es, especially C++, since we can think of Java as a subset of C++. CNI is just a set of helper functions and conventions built on the idea that C++ and Java have the *same* calling convention and object layout; they are binary compatible. (This is a simplification, but close enough.)

Re: Status of Free Java Environment?

1999-12-16 Thread Per Bothner
Bernd Kreimeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Question: will it be possible to mix JNI and CNI operations, per > binary, or even interleaved in source? The same executable has to be able to mix JNI and CNI, as Gcj will continue to use CNI to call the core library methods. I think

Re: Status of Free Java Environment?

1999-12-17 Thread Per Bothner
ion. > > Where is the modification? There is none. However, because Cygnus owns the copyright, they can distribute the code udner a *different* license *simultaneously* to different people/companies, if they wish. Hopefully, with the news Anthony mentioned, this will soon no longer be an

Re: FAQ-java draft

2000-02-18 Thread Per Bothner
.cygnus.com/java/ -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: FAQ-java draft

2000-02-20 Thread Per Bothner
t in Gdb for debugging any JVM that supports the JVMDI. Unfortunately, the Gdb internals changed, and the code was never merged into the Gdb main branch or released. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: Forte for Java Open source announcement

2000-03-16 Thread Per Bothner
e foreseeable future. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: Latest version of the Debian/JAVA FAQ

2000-03-21 Thread Per Bothner
y would open-source it. See http://www.sun.com/forte/tools4dotcom/opensource.html -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: bytes, chars, and BigIntegers, oh my!

2000-04-12 Thread Per Bothner
list, though. I assume the CpNNN ones as Windows "Code Pages". I know what many of the others are, or can guess. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: ITP: mozilla-ldapsdk (Java LDAP classes)

2000-05-24 Thread Per Bothner
Error if there is a bug in the Kaffe implementation, since the standard classes are not allowed to change interfaces. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-05 Thread Per Bothner
tation. The license for the documentation is: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/relnotes/SMICopyright.html Now that license does have some problems, but that is another discussion. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-06 Thread Per Bothner
"Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 11:00:18PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > > The license for the documentation is: > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/relnotes/SMICopyright.html > > Now that license does ha

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-01 Thread Per Bothner
rovocative. Of course one can build a serious application without java.security. One can even build a secure application without it, though java.security gives you better control. A compiler, a word-processor, an editor, or any single-user application should not to deal with security concerns. --

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-12 Thread Per Bothner
d innunendos? (Note I am not particularly interested in the success of Kaffe, given my association with Gcj, which can be viewed as a Kaffe competitor.) -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: kaffe/gcj (was: Re: Quitting debian-java)

2001-03-12 Thread Per Bothner
eans lots of things are missing, but that does not mean we would not like to add them. (For example an optional JIT, complete AWT, other classes, JNI invocation API, improved debugging support, more code optimization, flexible configuration.) -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

java library installation issues

2001-04-02 Thread Per Bothner
sspaths. (2) Java applications compiled with gcj automatically find the necessary ,so files, without the users having to explicitly list them on the gcj command line. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-03 Thread Per Bothner
Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Op dinsdag 03 april 2001 02:43, schreef Per Bothner: > > I'd like to make some progress on standard Linux/GNU installation > > standards for Java, and how GCJ fits into this. > > Have you taken over the maintainersh

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-03 Thread Per Bothner
Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Per, glad to see you are interested in making Java as cool in Debian > as native stuff is handled currently. :) Well, I'm not focusing on Debian - I'm actually currently using Red Hat. My goal is to make Java cool in GNU ge

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-03 Thread Per Bothner
Of course, the implementation for which the user has "java" > selected by his $PATH is the one that should be used. When compiling a Java application to native code, the executable should preferably be a native program. Requiring an extra shell wrapper is just extra clutter and overhead. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-03 Thread Per Bothner
t can be compiled to native, because Red Hat should support gcj, and Red Hat has not traditionally dealt with thousands of packages. For Debian the choice might be different. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-03 Thread Per Bothner
ative and .class files, JNI support, debugging with gdb, compatibility and integration with other GNU languages, and quickly growing maturity of libraries. As I said before, I am surprised and disappointed that the Free Software community has not supported Gcj better, but I think it may have reached enough "critical mass" that more people will start using it. (The Gcc 3.0 release should help.) -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Per Bothner
linker and Class.forName will > agree -- it won't matter to the end program whether a class is loaded > at runtime or at link time. Do you have a write-up of this? -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Per Bothner
Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like the idea of a Perl launcher... I hate the idea of requiring Perl in order to run Java ... Of course Debian can use whatever wrappers it will, but no Java application *I* manage will require Perl to run. -- --Per Bothn

Re: Java libraries and proposal.

2001-04-07 Thread Per Bothner
> legality, since I think Sun's Java license says something like: If the user > types "javac", they'd better get the compiler from the JDK.) Unless they have trademarked "javac" they don't get to say what gets run when a user types it. The only relevant license issue I know about is about re-distributing jdk but only as long as no part is "replaced". -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: Java libraries and proposal.

2001-04-11 Thread Per Bothner
due to lack of support for multiple versions of a library, and applications installing a version they need without consideration for other applications. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/

Re: GCJ Thought Balloon

2001-06-14 Thread Per Bothner
he size of a .so isn't enough to worry about. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/

Re: GCJ Thought Balloon

2001-06-14 Thread Per Bothner
ther thing to consider: Should gcjh-generated .h files be installed? > For Freenet the compiled .so is about 3Mb, so this would actually be > quite enough to worry about on my side. In that case the clean solution would seem to be make two packages: freenet and freenet-with-gcj (or wh

Re: java Makefile

2001-06-16 Thread Per Bothner
$(LIBTOOL) --tag=GCJ --mode=compile $(GCJ) $(GCJFLAGS) \ --CLASSPATH=$(JAVAROOT):$(srcdir)/$(JAVAROOT) -c \ $^ $(EXTRA_GCJ_INPUTS) -o $(OFILES_DIR)/$(PACKAGE_FNAME).lo The sourcesa are on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/kawa/kawa-newest.tar.gz . -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-16 Thread Per Bothner
upport. For example, Per Bothner said in a previous thread, In Java we have a global namespace, so the user/developer should not have to specify classpaths etc by default. (http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2001/debian-java-200104/msg00014.html) I mention this because Per qualifies as somet

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-16 Thread Per Bothner
jeff wrote: Why not just put the jars in /usr/share/java, keep the system classpath completely clean, and let the startup scripts for individual apps choose which to include? Because you're causing a big hassle for anybody writing a Java program, even "hello world". It is one thing to ask packager

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-16 Thread Per Bothner
location: package servlet import javax.servlet.Servlet; ^ 1 error On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:16:58PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: Let's just suppose that some crazy people disagree with you, and don't want miscellaneous libraries in their classpath. If people want that, th

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-17 Thread Per Bothner
is no way to extend an interface without breaking old clients.. The servlet API is of course notorious in this respect. C/C++ doesn't have this problem, at least not to the same extent. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-17 Thread Per Bothner
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well this is not a simple HelloWorld program, it is a servlet. And > the classes is in servlet2.2.jar right now. I'm sorry but I don't see your point. I'm not particularly concerned about simple HelloWorld programs. --

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-17 Thread Per Bothner
Ola Lundqvist wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:15:59AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: My proposal does not say anything about /usr/bin/java, except that the default classpath should include jars of installed packages. I am agnostic about the specifics of how that is done. Note that there are no

Re: clarification (classpath/repository)

2001-09-17 Thread Per Bothner
Ben Burton wrote: Okay, so have I got this right? The proposal is to have a directory for "standard" jars that are auto-included in the classpath for every JVM, Yes, though how this is done is to be determined. For example some JVMs might not have an "extensions" directory, or if they do it has t

Re: Large-scale java policy violations

2001-09-17 Thread Per Bothner
Stefan Gybas wrote: Basically yes, but IMHO this should be the decision of the local admin and not of the package maintainer. How could he know ig his package contains "standard" jars? This means that no package should automatically put jars or symlinks there. This would be /etc/java/default-classp

Re: New on the list - java on debian?

2001-11-12 Thread Per Bothner
ng server-style or other non-GUI application, I suggest you try it. See htpp://gcc.gnu.org/java/ --Per Bothner

Re: New on the list - java on debian?

2001-11-13 Thread Per Bothner
gnu.gcj.runtime.SharedLibLoader class. This is a ClassLoader that wraps a .so (pre-compiled native shared library). You could have a servlet engine that compiles a Java or jsp or whatever to a native shared library as needed, and then loads it using a SharedLibLoader. --Per Bothner

Re: kaffe status

2001-11-20 Thread Per Bothner
java-runtime. Well, the gcj runtimes (libgcj or whatever the package name is) should be fixed to provide java-runtime. --Per Bothner

Re: kaffe status

2001-11-20 Thread Per Bothner
involved in maintaining Debian packages. --Per

Re: kaffe status

2001-11-21 Thread Per Bothner
s has nothing to do with the debian meta information. I believe Tom meant: If you find a problem where gij is command-line incompatible with javac, then we consider that a bug in gij, not in the debian packaging of gij, and so the bug should be reported to the "upstream" maintainers - which means using gnats. --Per

Re: kaffe status

2001-11-21 Thread Per Bothner
hey better match 'java' and 'java' would be very welcome; in lieu of that a gnats bug report would also be welcome so at least we know there is a problem. (No guarantee that it will be fixed, of course.) --Per Bothner

Re: kaffe status

2001-11-21 Thread Per Bothner
Adam Heath wrote: Well, -classpath(jdk), --classpath(gcj). It appears to me that gcj supports both -classpath and --classpath equally. It does not support the newer -cp option. However, gij does not appear to support either option, though it does support a CLASSPATH environment variable. It also s

Re: [summary] Re: policy proposition for javadoc installation

2001-12-02 Thread Per Bothner
ntext of standardization for more general Linux and/or GNU systems. I.e. if/when Linux Standard Base or some similar project should tackle Java, can you make a good case that they should base it on the Debian policy? -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/

Java FAQ needs updating for GCJ

2002-02-24 Thread Per Bothner
;t believe that is the case - could someone provide a reference? 4.1 What jvms work in Debian Change title to "Sun-licensed" or "jck-derived" since there is a separate following section for "free jvms" 4.2 What free JVMs are available in Debian? Please add: * GCJ.

Re: Java FAQ needs updating for GCJ

2002-02-24 Thread Per Bothner
done a fair bit recently, but there is still quite a bit that needs to be done before the AWT implementation is complete and stable enough to write real GUI applications or applets. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/

Re: [HS] problem with gdb

2002-04-11 Thread Per Bothner
k my patches, I'd like to know how they work. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/ 2002-04-10 Per Bothner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * eval.c (evaluate_subexp_standard): Do overload resolution for Java. * infcmd.c (run_command): Reset

Re: Java Policy.

2002-05-12 Thread Per Bothner
rdize packaging. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java Policy.

2002-05-12 Thread Per Bothner
low. After all you don't do the .c to .so compilation at installation time, so why should .java to .so be different? Also, what happens if you install a Java package, and then install gcj later? Shuld that so the compilation to .so when you install gcj? -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL P

Re: Bug#156407: ITP: free-java-sdk -- Complete Java SDK environment consising of free Java tools

2002-08-13 Thread Per Bothner
rld) behind SableVM. This means at least 3 faculty-researcher and their graduate and undergradute students. I welcome the SableVM to consider whether their tchniques and code could be consistent with GCJ and produce something better than either. We would welcome such help. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/

Re: comments on proposed java policy

2002-08-29 Thread Per Bothner
#x27;t a Java runtme, gcj comes with an associated interpreter and runtime. The command 'gij' is intended to be able to replace the 'java' command. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/

Re: Java policy

2002-09-02 Thread Per Bothner
t *should* use /usr/share/java/ext as the default such directory. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/

Re: JNI Installation Directories

2002-10-05 Thread Per Bothner
Ben Burton wrote: IIRC the issue of automatically including every jar in /usr/share/java has already been hashed out on this list and decided to be a bad idea (too much overhead, poor control over conflicts, etc), thought I could be wrong. I did on September 2 make the following suggestion: Jav

Fwd: #897945 still present/breaks with Java 8

2019-01-30 Thread Per Lundberg
Sorry, was sent to the wrong address. Forwarded Message Subject: #897945 still present/breaks with Java 8 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:40:42 +0200 From: Per Lundberg To: 897...@bugs.debian.org CC: pkg-java-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org, Markus Koschany FWIW, version 1.4.2

Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-04 Thread Per Bothner
tation. The license for the documentation is: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/relnotes/SMICopyright.html Now that license does have some problems, but that is another discussion. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-06 Thread Per Bothner
"Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 11:00:18PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > > The license for the documentation is: > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/relnotes/SMICopyright.html > > Now that license does ha

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-01 Thread Per Bothner
f course one can build a serious application without java.security. One can even build a secure application without it, though java.security gives you better control. A compiler, a word-processor, an editor, or any single-user application should not to deal with security concerns. -- --Per

Re: Quitting debian-java

2001-03-11 Thread Per Bothner
d innunendos? (Note I am not particularly interested in the success of Kaffe, given my association with Gcj, which can be viewed as a Kaffe competitor.) -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kaffe/gcj (was: Re: Quitting debian-java)

2001-03-12 Thread Per Bothner
eans lots of things are missing, but that does not mean we would not like to add them. (For example an optional JIT, complete AWT, other classes, JNI invocation API, improved debugging support, more code optimization, flexible configuration.) -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

java library installation issues

2001-04-02 Thread Per Bothner
sspaths. (2) Java applications compiled with gcj automatically find the necessary ,so files, without the users having to explicitly list them on the gcj command line. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-02 Thread Per Bothner
Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Op dinsdag 03 april 2001 02:43, schreef Per Bothner: > > I'd like to make some progress on standard Linux/GNU installation > > standards for Java, and how GCJ fits into this. > > Have you taken over the maintainersh

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-02 Thread Per Bothner
Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Per, glad to see you are interested in making Java as cool in Debian > as native stuff is handled currently. :) Well, I'm not focusing on Debian - I'm actually currently using Red Hat. My goal is to make Java cool in GNU ge

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-03 Thread Per Bothner
Of course, the implementation for which the user has "java" > selected by his $PATH is the one that should be used. When compiling a Java application to native code, the executable should preferably be a native program. Requiring an extra shell wrapper is just extra clutter and overhead. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-03 Thread Per Bothner
t can be compiled to native, because Red Hat should support gcj, and Red Hat has not traditionally dealt with thousands of packages. For Debian the choice might be different. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-03 Thread Per Bothner
native and .class files, JNI support, debugging with gdb, compatibility and integration with other GNU languages, and quickly growing maturity of libraries. As I said before, I am surprised and disappointed that the Free Software community has not supported Gcj better, but I think it may have rea

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Per Bothner
linker and Class.forName will > agree -- it won't matter to the end program whether a class is loaded > at runtime or at link time. Do you have a write-up of this? -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: java library installation issues

2001-04-04 Thread Per Bothner
Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like the idea of a Perl launcher... I hate the idea of requiring Perl in order to run Java ... Of course Debian can use whatever wrappers it will, but no Java application *I* manage will require Perl to run. -- --Per Bothn

Re: Java libraries and proposal.

2001-04-07 Thread Per Bothner
ge of > legality, since I think Sun's Java license says something like: If the user > types "javac", they'd better get the compiler from the JDK.) Unless they have trademarked "javac" they don't get to say what gets run when a user types it. The only relevant license issue I know about is about re-distributing jdk but only as long as no part is "replaced". -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java libraries and proposal.

2001-04-11 Thread Per Bothner
problem, due to lack of support for multiple versions of a library, and applications installing a version they need without consideration for other applications. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: GCJ Thought Balloon

2001-06-14 Thread Per Bothner
he size of a .so isn't enough to worry about. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GCJ Thought Balloon

2001-06-14 Thread Per Bothner
ve. Another thing to consider: Should gcjh-generated .h files be installed? > For Freenet the compiled .so is about 3Mb, so this would actually be > quite enough to worry about on my side. In that case the clean solution would seem to be make two packages: freenet and freenet-with-gcj (or wh

Re: java Makefile

2001-06-16 Thread Per Bothner
$(LIBTOOL) --tag=GCJ --mode=compile $(GCJ) $(GCJFLAGS) \ --CLASSPATH=$(JAVAROOT):$(srcdir)/$(JAVAROOT) -c \ $^ $(EXTRA_GCJ_INPUTS) -o $(OFILES_DIR)/$(PACKAGE_FNAME).lo The sourcesa are on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/kawa/kawa-newest.tar.gz . -- --Per Bothner [EM

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-16 Thread Per Bothner
ould point out that the opposite view >has support. For example, Per Bothner said in a previous thread, > >In Java we have a global namespace, so the user/developer should >not have to specify classpaths etc by default. > >(http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2001/debia

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-16 Thread Per Bothner
jeff wrote: >Why not just put the jars in /usr/share/java, keep the system classpath >completely clean, and let the startup scripts for individual apps choose which >to include? > Because you're causing a big hassle for anybody writing a Java program, even "hello world". It is one thing to ask p

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-16 Thread Per Bothner
bol : class Servlet location: package servlet import javax.servlet.Servlet; ^ 1 error On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:16:58PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: >Let's just suppose that some crazy people disagree with you, and don't >want miscellaneous libraries in their clas

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-16 Thread Per Bothner
is no way to extend an interface without breaking old clients.. The servlet API is of course notorious in this respect. C/C++ doesn't have this problem, at least not to the same extent. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-16 Thread Per Bothner
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well this is not a simple HelloWorld program, it is a servlet. And > the classes is in servlet2.2.jar right now. I'm sorry but I don't see your point. I'm not particularly concerned about simple HelloWorld programs. --

Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

2001-09-17 Thread Per Bothner
Ola Lundqvist wrote: >On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:15:59AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > >>My proposal does not say anything about /usr/bin/java, except that >>the default classpath should include jars of installed packages. >>I am agnostic about the specifics of how tha

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