Re: The proposed java policy have now moved.
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:27:10PM +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote:
> I'm just wondering if such fine grain control is necessary ?
Yes I think so.
> If all jvm packages out there specified whether they were java1-runtime
> or java2-runtime compliant (or both), then all java packages could
> depend on the runtime they require ?
With this sheme it is possible to create a package that only provides
the binary java (with a couple of other usefulthings) and an other package
providing the core classes. I'm updating the policy right now because it
want to fix the dependencies.
> This eliminates the need for java-virtual-machine alltogether, and
> places the level or control at the runtime version number.
>
> Or would there be cases where that would cause problems ?
Yes if there are pacakges that only have the binary and depends on
the core classes from some other package. Quite like jikes but for a
virtual machine instead.
Regards,
// Ola
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