Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 22:06 schrieb Matej Cepl: > Michael Koch wrote: > > A big problem is that we don't get enough feedback from users > > with bug reports. More bug reports would be wonderful. All the > > people out there seem to like to use (buggy) proprietary software > > more than free

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Derek Broughton
On Thursday 06 January 2005 17:09, you wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 21:11 schrieb Derek Broughton: > > > > "What is Kaffe not? > > ... > > Kaffe is constantly under development, and lacks compatibility in > > many ways with the current releases of Java. It lacks many key > > features of a

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Matej Cepl
Michael Koch wrote: > A big problem is that we don't get enough feedback from users with bug > reports. More bug reports would be wonderful. All the people out > there seem to like to use (buggy) proprietary software more than free > software and report issues if there are some. Free Java in Debian

Re: java plug-in

2005-01-06 Thread David P James
On Wed 5 January 2005 04:54, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2005 07:48 schrieb jianan: > > I would like to be completely free, software-wise, but do I have a > > choice in this case, if a vendor site uses Java applets to fill > > forms? > > Since konqueror does not rely on a mozill

OT: Kaffe website (was: java plug-in (sablevm))

2005-01-06 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 22:09 schrieb Michael Koch: > This information is really old and not up-to-date. And you overrate > the meaning of it. *g* I guess it's time to update the project site, then ;) BTW: the site layout is really bad, e.g. on http://www.kaffe.org/compatibility_applicatio

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 21:11 schrieb Derek Broughton: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 15:58, Michael Koch wrote: > > I give up. "is not usable" is not really describing a problem. We > > can't even guess what your problem is out of this. There are many > > people out there that are happy with

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Derek Broughton
On Thursday 06 January 2005 15:58, Michael Koch wrote: > > I give up. "is not usable" is not really describing a problem. We > can't even guess what your problem is out of this. There are many > people out there that are happy with the free runtimes already. > I give up, too. I haven't been tryin

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 17:45 schrieb Derek Broughton: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 12:28, tomas pospisek wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:39, Michael Koch wrote: > > > > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 15:47 schrieb Derek Broughton: >

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
Derek Broughton pointerstop.ca> writes: > I agree. I have explicitly _not_ used such words as "crap" though. The > problem is that kaffe (specifically - I haven't tried sablevm) has never been > at a stage where I could use if for my own applications. If I can't use it > _at all_ it's hard

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Derek Broughton
On Thursday 06 January 2005 12:28, tomas pospisek wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Derek Broughton wrote: > > On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:39, Michael Koch wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 15:47 schrieb Derek Broughton: > > > > If I can't use Swing, it's useless. Sorry, but we're years pas

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 16:55 schrieb Derek Broughton: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:39, Michael Koch wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 15:47 schrieb Derek Broughton: > > > If I can't use Swing, it's useless. Sorry, but we're years > > > past that. I tried to use kaffe, but I have

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread tomas pospisek
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Derek Broughton wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:39, Michael Koch wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 15:47 schrieb Derek Broughton: > > > If I can't use Swing, it's useless. Sorry, but we're years past > > > that. I tried to use kaffe, but I have to go back and r

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Derek Broughton
On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:39, Michael Koch wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 15:47 schrieb Derek Broughton: > > If I can't use Swing, it's useless. Sorry, but we're years past > > that. I tried to use kaffe, but I have to go back and rewrite far > > too much. > > If you would provide mo

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 15:47 schrieb Derek Broughton: > If I can't use Swing, it's useless. Sorry, but we're years past > that. I tried to use kaffe, but I have to go back and rewrite far > too much. If you would provide more info we could work on your problem but with so much informati

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Derek Broughton
On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:17, Michael Koch wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 13:52 schrieb Derek Broughton: > > On Thursday 06 January 2005 06:42, Michael Koch wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 11:35 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj > > Andersen: > > > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:3

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 15:29 schrieb Rafael Rodríguez: > Erm.. that's nice, but when i talked about an intro, i meant what's > the status of each solution right now (kaffe, sablevm, gcj, etc). > > For the simple things i do with java, jikes + kaffe work great. > Jikes is blinking fast and pr

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 15:08 schrieb tomas pospisek: > Unless Gadek is a blockhead you both should be able to find a > solution where the package only consists of dependencies and where > the user can choose one or the other. Or at least that's what > rationality would imply. *t He is sure

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Rafael Rodríguez
Erm.. that's nice, but when i talked about an intro, i meant what's the status of each solution right now (kaffe, sablevm, gcj, etc). For the simple things i do with java, jikes + kaffe work great. Jikes is blinking fast and provides much better error output than sun's Regards, Rafael Rodrígue

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread tomas pospisek
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Michael Koch wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 14:23 schrieb Daniel Serpell: [...] > > ~$ apt-cache show free-java-sdk > > Package: free-java-sdk > > [...] > > Depends: jikes-sablevm, fastjar, sablevm, classpath-tools > > [...] > > Description: Complete Java SDK environmen

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 14:23 schrieb Daniel Serpell: > Hi! > > El Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:42:54AM +0100, Michael Koch escribio: > > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 11:35 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj Andersen: > > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:38, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > > Or maybe Sable VM

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Daniel Serpell
Hi! El Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:42:54AM +0100, Michael Koch escribio: > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 11:35 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj Andersen: > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:38, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > Or maybe Sable VM (not sure if there is a Debian package for it) > > > > It's in unstable

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 12:47 schrieb Rafael Rodríguez: > El Jueves, 6 de Enero de 2005 11:12, Michael Koch escribió: > > Some of the "facts" in this document are outdated and others are > > just wrong or incomplete.I will try to get some free time to > > update it. > > Can u give us a little

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 13:52 schrieb Derek Broughton: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 06:42, Michael Koch wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 11:35 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj Andersen: > > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:38, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > > Or maybe Sable VM (not sure if the

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Derek Broughton
On Thursday 06 January 2005 06:42, Michael Koch wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 11:35 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj Andersen: > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:38, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > Or maybe Sable VM (not sure if there is a Debian package for it) > > > > It's in unstable. And I seem to

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Rafael Rodríguez
El Jueves, 6 de Enero de 2005 11:12, Michael Koch escribió: > Some of the "facts" in this document are outdated and others are just > wrong or incomplete.I will try to get some free time to update it. Can u give us a little informal intro? Would be nice to know about the actual status of debian j

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 12:00 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj Andersen: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:42, Michael Koch wrote: > > > It's in unstable. And I seem to remember that it is in fact the > > > recommended free jvm for Debian. > > > > Where have you read this ? As a free java developer an

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Anders Ellenshøj Andersen
On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:42, Michael Koch wrote: > > It's in unstable. And I seem to remember that it is in fact the > > recommended free jvm for Debian. > > Where have you read this ? As a free java developer and part of the > Debian Java effort I would recommend kaffe. I don't remember. I

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 11:35 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj Andersen: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:38, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > Or maybe Sable VM (not sure if there is a Debian package for it) > > It's in unstable. And I seem to remember that it is in fact the > recommended free jvm for Debia

Re: java plug-in (sablevm)

2005-01-06 Thread Anders Ellenshøj Andersen
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 12:38, Kevin Krammer wrote: > Or maybe Sable VM (not sure if there is a Debian package for it) It's in unstable. And I seem to remember that it is in fact the recommended free jvm for Debian. Anders

Re: java plug-in

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 10:54, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2005 07:48 schrieb jianan: > > I would like to be completely free, software-wise, but do I have a choice > > in this case, if a vendor site uses Java applets to fill forms? > > Since konqueror does not rely on a moz

Re: java plug-in

2005-01-05 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2005 07:48 schrieb jianan: > I would like to be completely free, software-wise, but do I have a choice > in this case, if a vendor site uses Java applets to fill forms? Since konqueror does not rely on a mozilla-plugin, it should be able to use any java interpreter. Kaffe i

Re: Re: java plug-in

2005-01-05 Thread jianan
I would like to be completely free, software-wise, but do I have a choice in this case, if a vendor site uses Java applets to fill forms? Jianan

KMail on the fritz? [was: Re: java plug-in]

2005-01-04 Thread David P James
On Tue 4 January 2005 05:00, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > So to what message does this answer belong. You're not only breaking > threading but also avoid quoting? > Actually, you are the very first one that I know that is able to get > such crap out of KMail :-( > I was wondering what you were talkin

Re: java plug-in

2005-01-04 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 15:28 schrieb jianan: > Thanks for all the info. I had got it working in Konqueror. > I went to Sun site, downloaded a self-extracting binary of j2re-1.4..2_06, > do a 'sh', make some dirs and set Konqueror Java & Javascript to point to > the path of 'java'. The download

Re: Re: Re: java plug-in

2005-01-04 Thread jianan
Thanks for all the info. I had got it working in Konqueror. I went to Sun site, downloaded a self-extracting binary of j2re-1.4..2_06, do a 'sh', make some dirs and set Konqueror Java & Javascript to point to the path of 'java'. The download was about 14MB. As a side discussion, wouldn't having

Re: java plug-in

2005-01-04 Thread Derek Broughton
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 06:00, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > So to what message does this answer belong. You're not only breaking > threading but also avoid quoting? > Actually, you are the very first one that I know that is able to get such > crap out of KMail :-( LOL. I had to check, because th

Re: java plug-in

2005-01-04 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 12:17 schrieben Sie: > You're the second person that has responded in a rude manner to this > poster. Not quite. I previously kindly asked him in a private mail please to not mess up mailing list threads. Why? Because it makes following the discussion in the archive (

Re: java plug-in

2005-01-04 Thread C. Hurschler
You're the second person that has responded in a rude manner to this poster. No one is forcing you to reply. If you can't do it in a normal manner, just don't. Chris On Tuesday 04 January 2005 11:00, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 10:05 schrieb jianan: > > Could not do a

Re: java plug-in

2005-01-04 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 10:05 schrieb jianan: > Could not do a 'apt-get update'. There was error 404 about site not found. > 'apt-get install' gave the following msg. > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have >

Re: java plug-in

2005-01-04 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 05:29 schrieb jianan: > I'm using sarge, kernel 2.6.8 and kde 3.2.2. > I'm having problem filling-in ofrms online.Suspect I need Java plug-in. > From SUN's Java site, download for the plug-in is not available for Debian. > Is it available as

Re: Re: java plug-in

2005-01-04 Thread jianan
Hi Could not do a 'apt-get update'. There was error 404 about site not found. 'apt-get install' gave the following msg. Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the

Re: java plug-in

2005-01-03 Thread Matej Cepl
jianan wrote: > I'm using sarge, kernel 2.6.8 and kde 3.2.2. > I'm having problem filling-in ofrms online.Suspect I need Java plug-in. > From SUN's Java site, download for the plug-in is not available for > Debian. Is it available as a Debian package? deb http://

java plug-in

2005-01-03 Thread jianan
Hi, I'm using sarge, kernel 2.6.8 and kde 3.2.2. I'm having problem filling-in ofrms online.Suspect I need Java plug-in. From SUN's Java site, download for the plug-in is not available for Debian. Is it available as a Debian package? Jianan