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Re: Java Policy.



On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 02:45:24PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 05:41:29PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > http://people.debian.org/~opal/java/policy.html/policy.html
> 
> The following,
> 
>     Both are shipped as Java bytecode (*.class  files, packaged in a
>     *.jar archive) and with an "Architecture: all" since Java
>     bytecode is supposed to be portable. 
> 
> seems to forbid both code with native parts, and Java code compiled
> to machine binaries with gcj.  It seems reasonable to me to allow
> both of these.

Well I do not really understand this. Java code is supposed to be
portable. If you compile it to machine binaries it is no longer a
java program and should not be packaged as a such. Non java
components should be extracted to a separate package IMHO.

Regards,

// Ola

> Andrew
> 
> 
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