W liście z nie, 19-01-2003, godz. 23:17, Dalibor Topic pisze: > --- Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:22:23PM +0100, Grzegorz > > B. Prokopski wrote: > > > > I don't know what 99% or what 80% is. Fact is that > > aside of Kaffe, > > > the other free JVMs use indirectly (like gcj) or > > directly one single > > > source of it's classpath lisbrary - GNU Classpath. > > I really doubt if this > > > project has reached 80% of what java 1.2 > > (especially in the area of > > > graphical interfaces) should be. I think that *I* > > would use GNU > > > Classpath as the 100% here (then we can have JVMs > > that support more > > > than 100% ;-). But I don't really expect you to > > write it down to > > > the policy. > > > > Hmm. It it that bad. I was not aware of that > > actually. In some way > > we have to define java1-runtime in a good way. > > Define it against > > a moving target (like classpath) might not be a good > > thing. On the > > other hand it might be the best way... > > Well, seems like you guys are looking for some numbers > ;) Check the japitools JDK API compatibility pages at > http://rainbow.netreach.net/~sballard/japi/ Thanks for the link. However in this case the APIs are compared, not if they really work. There's a lot of stubs in GNU Classpath, so I doubt if this comparison method is sutiable for our purpose. Every JVM that uses GNU Classpath would get same results. It's comparison of classpaths not JVMs. > > > As for my proposals, I think I'd do it this way: > > > 1. Define exactly what requirements must be met > > for JVM to be able > > > to _legally_ provide java-virtual-machine, > > java*-runtime etc. > > > > Then we can agree on that. The problem is to define > > it... :( > > I don't understand the term 'legally' in this context. > What legal requirements are there? Legally - after meeting the (future, planned) requirements of Java Policy for the JVMs that want to have such Provides:. Regards Grzegorz B. Prokopski -- Grzegorz B. Prokopski <gadek@debian.org> Debian http://www.debian.org/
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