Re: Canonical Will Remove Java From Ubuntu

2011-12-22 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 14:12 Thu 22 Dec , Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 12/21/2011 06:52 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > > On 12/21/2011 05:09 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: > >> On 20.12.2011 19:30, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > >>> Probably because OpenJDK and SunJDK aren't really that compatible. > > > > Well, hold on.

Re: Canonical Will Remove Java From Ubuntu

2011-12-22 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 10:41 Thu 22 Dec , Paul Howarth wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:17:15 + > Andrew Haley wrote: > > > On 12/21/2011 10:45 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: > > > On 21.12.2011 18:52, Andrew Haley wrote: > > >> There really is very little difference between the com.sun.* > > >> classes in OpenJDK and

Re: Canonical Will Remove Java From Ubuntu

2011-12-21 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 18:09 Wed 21 Dec , Matej Cepl wrote: > On 20.12.2011 19:30, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > > Probably because OpenJDK and SunJDK aren't really that compatible. > > I am afraid that most of these problems are caused by stupid developers > who are using (against all advices they were given)

Re: Canonical Will Remove Java From Ubuntu

2011-12-19 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 06:54 Sun 18 Dec , Neal Becker wrote: > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=159737 > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Saw this on LWN. It's because of Oracle licensing changes and may actually

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 13:12 Fri 04 Nov , Tom Lane wrote: > I have been looking into replacing Fedora's obsolete version of libpng > (1.2.x release series) with something more modern. The possible choices > are the 1.4.x and 1.5.x release series. The 1.5.x series adds some more > features that 1.4.x did not have

Re: Bug in javac ?

2011-10-31 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 16:48 Mon 31 Oct , Andrew Haley wrote: > > > Am 31.10.2011 17:00, schrieb Deepak Bhole: > > > >> It looks like a known bug in the 6 compiler related to interface > >> inheritance and covariant return types. I think this is the commit > >> that fixed it in 7: > >> > >> http://hg.openjdk.j

Re: java-1.7.0-openjdk breaks java detection in LibreOffice?

2011-10-26 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 19:58 Wed 26 Oct , Heiko Adams wrote: > Am 26.10.2011 19:06, schrieb Jared K. Smith: > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Heiko Adams > > wrote: > >> is it just me or is java-1.7.0-openjdk breaking LibreOffice java > >> detection? > > > > Sounds like it might be related to bug 748585. >

Re: GIMP vs. poppler licensing, was: So you want to test an unstable GIMP...

2011-09-01 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 14:50 Thu 01 Sep , Simo Sorce wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 20:42 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > It seems one always forgets something... well, better this than leaving > > the stove on. > > > > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 12:45 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > > Here's the gist (in no parti

Re: Java 7 for Fedora 16

2011-08-01 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 10:55 Fri 29 Jul , Deepak Bhole wrote: > * Omair Majid [2011-07-29 10:32]: > > On 07/25/2011 04:04 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote: > > >* Bill Nottingham [2011-07-25 15:54]: > > >>Toshio Kuratomi (a.bad...@gmail.com) said: > > >>>Robyn and I have talked about how the feature process could be adapt

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 19:06 Thu 04 Nov , Jiri Moskovcak wrote: > On 11/04/2010 06:56 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > On 17:54 Thu 04 Nov , Frank Murphy wrote: > >> On 04/11/10 17:51, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > >> > >> > >>> This is the problem we hav

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 17:54 Thu 04 Nov , Frank Murphy wrote: > On 04/11/10 17:51, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > > > This is the problem we have with java-1.6.0-openjdk, except it's magnified > > by the fact that the user could be running *ANYTHING* on the JVM. So if >

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 07:41 Thu 04 Nov , Ralf Corsepius wrote: > snip... > > As a maintainer, abrt to me primarily means "wading through wakes of > hardly readable emails", mostly to scan them for useful information. I > many cases I ended up with closing BZ, because these emails did not > contain sufficient

Re: Java3D?

2010-10-18 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 12:53 Sun 17 Oct , Eric Smith wrote: > Has anyone worked on packaging Java3D for Fedora? Or is there any > reason that it wouldn't be acceptable for inclusion in Fedora? > > I haven't really looked into packaging Java3D yet, but I want to package > ReplicatorG, which is used to control