Re: JVM Registry (was: CLASSPATH and Jikes)
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:47:50AM +1100, Ben Burton wrote:
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Hi
>
> Well that was fun, somebody unsubscribed me from debian-java; the first I
> heard was the successful unsubscription notification. As a result I nearly
> missed this. But anyway:
>
> > I am attempting to resurrect both my Kaffe package and my involvement
> > therein. This JVM registry seems like a great idea. What would it take
> > to move it forward?
>
> I've now dredged up the full proposal I initially made over a year ago and put
> it up as http://people.debian.org/~bab/javareg/PROPOSAL.txt .
Ahh forgot about my other message. There is already a proposal. :)
> What I believe would need to happen is:
>
> 1) People agree on whether a JVM registry is in principle a good thing;
I second that. :)
> 2) People agree on precisely what fields should be provided in the registry
> files, and whether these registry files should be conffiles or not;
> 3) The proposal is put into java policy;
When that the 1, 2 and at least started the 4 I'll do that. :)
> 4a) The various debian JVMs and compilers add registry files to their
> packages, while:
> 4b) The registry query scripts are added to java-common and tweaked/modified
> as necessary.
>
> At which point other java packages can successfully start using this registry.
>
> So. How do people currently feel about (1)? ;-)
>
> Btw, there was some discussion on all of this back in September/October 2001,
> you might want to browse the archives if you're interested in people's
> earlier reponses.
Regards,
// Ola
> Ben.
>
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> Ben Burton
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