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Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath



On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:21:22PM +0200, Jan Schulz wrote:

> * Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >I like some of the ideas in your proposal, but things like "Java Runtime
> >Environments, which are complient to the Java Spec of a specific Version,
> >have to provide the virtual package [...] and setup alternatives [...]" are
> >not achievable with the current state of free java.  
> 
> This interface is not for the free ones but only for the sun complient
> ones (Sun, BD, IBM). The rest will be handled independently.

Independently how?  I admit I am primarily interested in how java VMs and
development tools in Debian will work with java software in Debian, and not
with commercial JVMs, development tools or software.

-- 
 - mdz



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