Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> writes: > > On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > > > I am not yet a guavac user, but I plan to do some Java development > > > for Linux (GPL'd of course), so I will end up being one sooner or later. > > > > > > And that raises a concern ... I don't want my work to depend on non-free > > > components. I see that while guavac is DFSG compliant, kaffe is not. On > > > examining kaffe closer, it is because it depends on the non-free jdk. I'm > > > wondering what could be done to make it depend on Kore instead? It seems > > > Kore isn't even packaged yet. Is it still too rough to be building on top > > > of? > > > > Last time I had a look at it (months ago), kore was still too incomplete > > to replace jdk classes. But if it's now mature, feel free to package it. > > It will take me a while to determine this, as I am a neophyte Java > programmer. Perhaps someone can help me make this determination? > > In any event, I will be downloading guavac, kaffe, and kore, and will > at least give them a try. perhaps you want to have a look at this page http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/jolt/ JOLT Project Home Page JOLT is a project to develop a free Java development environment. For more Java related bookmarks you can look at http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/bookmarks/java.html. I'm going to pack the biss-awt. I'll upload it to my www site, when it's ready (http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/debian/packages/). It can't go directly into Debian because of an unclear copyright. Bye Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany leutloff@sundancer.oche.de http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1! Mehr unter http://www.de.debian.org/
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