Re: Free Java specifications (was Re: Java Policy.)

2002-05-13 Thread Rick Lutowski
Jim Pick wrote: > > Because the set of Java APIs is so large, trying to develop a set of > class libraries that works as a drop in replacement for Sun's libraries > is a very large task. In reality, it's going to be a long time before > the free java class library projects manage to reimplement 1

Re: Free Java specifications (was Re: Java Policy.)

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:15:31PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > I think the Debian Java policy, as currently stated, is slightly flawed, > as it tries to satisfy two goals that aren't completely orthogonal: > > 1) To get as much free Java software into Debian as possible, that runs > without non-

Free Java specifications (was Re: Java Policy.)

2002-05-12 Thread Jim Pick
I think the Debian Java policy, as currently stated, is slightly flawed, as it tries to satisfy two goals that aren't completely orthogonal: 1) To get as much free Java software into Debian as possible, that runs without non-free software (eg. without Sun's JDK) 2) To put together a distrib