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

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