Re: priorities for java alternatives
Matthias Klose <doko <at> cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
>
> now that non-free java jre's and jdk's are available in non-free, we
> should get some agreement about the priorities for the different tools
> and environments. some proposals:
>
> - things in main have higher priorities than things in contrib
> and non-free.
Sounds fine to me.
>
> - an alternative installed as a "set" of alternatives has higher
> priority than a single tool.
Do you have an example in mind where that would be useful?
> - tools conforming to a higher "java version" have a higher priority
> (unsure if that is necessary).
We have no way to figure out which java version tools conform to, so I don't
think that is possible.
> - ordering of the free runtimes. can we agree on some kind of order?
I'd suggest a popcon based ordering. Reevaluate for every
release / 6 months, etc. which should let us shuffle things
around as necessary.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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