Re: newer jikes may never get to testing (and thus stable)

[Jan Schulz <jasc.usenet@gmx.de>]

Hallo Grzegorz,

Only a reply to the list, as this won't help before the sarge release.

* Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
>The problem is that jikes privides wrappers which depend on every
>possible JVM in Debian. [...]
>Probably the proper fix for that would be that creation of wrappers
>should be only up to JVM/classpath maintainers and be done by them,
>probably in their JVM/classpath packages.
>Are there any reasons not to do so?

If the discussed proposal is used, this will be the only way to do it.

-> A 'ant environment', which will use jikes as a compiler, will set
the ANT_BUILD_COMPILER to jikes and ant will use jikes as a compiler.

Jan
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