Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath
Hi Ean,
--- Ean Schuessler <ean@brainfood.com> wrote:
> Something I have just now thought of that might make more sense. What if
> we use Classpath as the standard instead of the Sun VM releases?
>
> Therefore,
> Kaffe: provides: Classpath-0.5
> ORP: provides: Classpath-0.5
> J2SDK1.4: provides: Classpath-0.5
> Tomcat4: depends: Classpath-0.5
>
> The only trouble is that Classpath-0.5 is Classpath's actual version and
> not some sort of intentional demarcation of features. Maybe what we need
> is some sort of Free Java feature spec that is loosely based on
> Classpath. I think Classpath is pretty representative (if not
> fundamental) for the various Free VMs that are out there.
In a way, yes. But different VMs use different (i.e. adapted, partial, old, or
straight from CVS) versions of Classpath. So it could again cause more
confusion than good.
> Kaffe is actually mostly compatible with the JAVA_HOME "standard" now
> that I use symlinks for Debian compatibility. It might be worth making
> the JAVA_HOME structure part of Debian policy. GCJ and friends could
> create some simulation of it by symlinking stuff into a fake JAVA_HOME
> structure.
I doubt it. JAVA_HOME isn't specified anywhere by Sun AFAIK, nor what should be
in there, or how it should work. It's just a part of the ugly java folklore,
like trigraphs in C. ;)
cheers,
dalibor topic
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