Re: Classpath in Debian (was: Re: question about this project.)

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi Arnaud,

--- Arnaud Vandyck <address@hidden> wrote:
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> / Michael Koch <address@hidden> wrote:
> | Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2003 03:01 schrieb jsona laio:
> | > i am new to this forum and willing to contribute something to java
> | > community. after review few pages on the classpath project
> | > website, it seems that the main focus of the classpath is on
> | > developing fundamental packages of the java language, which would
> | > prefix with javax. is that right? despite of such goal, is that
> | > possible to build some service for enterprise arch (perhaps, based
> | > upon this project)?  i appreciate any reply, thank you very much.
> | 
> | why packaging parts of classpath for Debian again when classpath as
> | a whole is already in Debian ?
> 
> I don't think the question is related to the previous mail :-) So I'll
> respond to the question regarding my point of view. I did want to
> package jta and jdbc-stdext because these packages does not exist in
> jdk1.3 and I don't have anything else on my powerpc. But I do not want
> to use classpath for everyday use because of some lack of classpath at
> the moment. So I did package jta and jdbc-stdext and after that,
> noticed these references api exists in classpath.
> 
> Classpath in Debian put /usr/share/classpath/glibj.zip wich is not the
> standard location for Debian java packages and it's normal because
> these are consider as bootclasspath, not extensions. I do not want to
> put this glibj.zip in my classpath but I'd like to have a free jta and
> a free jdbc-stdext.

While you're at it, separately packaging classpath's Swing implementation could
be useful to get free software using Swing to build on kaffe, wonka or other
free VMs, which don't use Classpath [1]. 

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] kaffe 1.0.7 in debian doesn't use any parts of Classpath, while current
kaffe code in CVS uses some classes from Classpath.

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