Re: lib-rxtx-java package
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 07:43, Mario Joussen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:07:53PM -0500, Joe Phillips wrote:
> > I chose to package 2.0 (as opposed to 2.1) as it is documented to work
> > with Java CommAPI. I have successfully used my package with some
> > CommAPI software already.
>
> But there's the problem. I think that the Java CommAPI is like the other
> Java stuff from Sun non free in the sense of Debian. And therefore it's
> better to have rxtx version 2.1 in the Debian distribution.
I understand.
I don't understand why we can't just re-implement java CommAPI
completely but that's a side issue right now.
> I think you
> can use every software that works with javax.comm also with gnu.io if
> you have the source code.
and *that's* the problem. I *don't* have the source for everything I
need to run. Further, I see Java CommAPI as a 'standard' interface that
we're not implementing.
Can we have packages for both? maybe with the 2.0 package in
contrib/non-free and 2.1 is in main?
> I hope, that I have the time to package rxtx 2.1 this weekend.
If not, I can help.
-joe
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