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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