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JNI Installation Directories: Another push



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Hi, it's me yet again on this JNI issue.

> My suggestion is that you start filing wishlist bugs against the jvm:s
> and talk to blackdown folk (hi there! ;) ) or similar.

Well, I filed these wishlist bugs, complete with wrapper scripts that would 
implement this JNI directory change, about three months ago.  Bugs were filed 
against gij-3.2, kaffe, sablevm, jdk1.1 and ibm-jdk1.1-installer, and an 
email was also sent to the j2se1.4 maintainer (since this package does not 
use the debian BTS).

In the intervening three months, absolutely nothing has been done for *any* of 
these virtual machines, with the single exception of gij-3.2 (which, 
incidentally, was the only virtual machine I know of that couldn't use the 
patch I sent three months ago since it didn't support -Djava.library.path, 
but which had a new upload within days of me providing a patch that 
circumvented the -Djava.library.path problem).

A week or so ago I submitted source-level patches to the other JVMs in main 
(kaffe and sablevm), i.e., patches which augment the JNI search path in the 
JVM itself instead of relying on a clever wrapper script.  I haven't done 
this with the JVMs in non-free for the obvious reasons, but there are still 
the wrapper scripts I provided.

> When it has been implemented on some important jvm:s (like kaffe,
> jdk1.1 and possibly j2re) I'll update the Debian policy.

It becomes increasingly apparent to me that if we wait for this JNI path 
change to take place on "enough" JVMs, that this policy change will never 
happen.

People seem to agree that this policy change is a good thing and patches have 
been available for months.  Can we just change policy now, upgrade these bugs 
from wishlist to something more important, and then let the JVMs catch up?

Ben. :)

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Ben Burton
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