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Re: priorities for java alternatives



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> 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

Yeah! Thanks for the work!..

>>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.

OK.

>>- 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?

gcj, kaffe better priority than jamvm, cacao, sablevm?

>>- 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.

It can be useful for non-free jre/jdk, but not for the free vm's

>>- 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.

We can also reevaluate just before the release.

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