Re: Looking for the right Java solution
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 07:32:24PM +0100, Ivo Marino wrote:
> Hello Debian Java folks,
>
> I need to develop a chess-like game which should be written 100% in
> Java, the program should also have a GUI which will show the moves.
>
> As far as I'm a Debian GNU/Linux `testing` user I would like to know
> which Java SDK package would allow me to develop such a program.
>
> I've seen the free-java-sdk package which should provide all the DSFG
> compliant basic development tools, the only problem seems to be that
> such package won't support Java GUI development packages like SWING or
> SWT.
Where have you found this rumor ?
> Recently I was trying out Ubuntu GNU/Linux on which I've used IBM's Java
> SDK (ported to .deb via alien from a RPM package): It worked fine.
>
> Any suggestions on which Debian package would be a good solution to
> suite my Java development needs?
You could download some proprietary JDK and convert it to deb with
make-jpkg from java-package if you really want to depend on non-free
stuff. Anbd the Java trap (1) is there again.
Michael
1) http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html
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