On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 08:51, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe you've seen I fill some ITP to get jta and jdbc in Debian. I did > package them but it's non-free stuff. After some discussion on the > classpath and classpathx-discuss lists, I learnt that these classes > were in classpath! But it's not usable for me as is. Why are the classes not useable ... ? > The proposal is to have more package from classpath. IMHO the hack > would be trivial and I'd be glad to help. > With this proposal, we could have these packages in Debian main: > > - libgnujta-java (java transaction api) > - libgnujdbc-stdext-java (jdbc standard extensions) > - libswing-java (YES! a free swing implementation) So you propose that the these new packages will be generated from the classpath release? The first two are just APIs (am I right?), and the second one is all the swing code. I didn't think that classpath had anything close to a complete swing implementation. Do you just want the swing classes to be able to compile other packages against the swing api? > I think if we can do that, some libraries can leave contrib to main! > :-) > > It's my first proposal so I do not know where we go from here? A vote? > John what do you think? I don't think we need a vote, if anyone has objections or better suggestions I'm sure they will tell us. -- John Leuner <jewel@pixie.co.za>
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