Re: priorities for java alternatives
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:39:05PM +0200, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote:
> >> Speaking of alternatives, it would be nice to have a mean to completely
> >> switch from one Java alternative to another. Currently you need to
> >> modify
> >> more than 10 different alternatives in order to switch from e.g. kaffe
> >> to
> >> Sun's Java or back.
> >> I don't know how this could be fixed, but this is cumbersome. Wouldn't
> >> it
> >> be possible to define only alternatives for java and javac, and
> >> everything
> >> else would be slave alternatives of the both, depending if they're meant
> >> to be Runtime or Development commands?
> >
> > You are correct. A solution to this problem has been incorporated into
> > java-common 0.25: update-java-alternatives(8)
> >
> Thanks for the hint, I've just seen that java-common 0.25 entered testing,
> so I should have it soon installed on my laptop.
>
> Else, for all your enhancement points, +1. But you don't need to be DD to
> fix them, just do a reportbug and attach a patch ;-)
Right, patches are a good thing to attach to bug reports. That is the
best. Somehow mails in the lists tend to get forgotten more easily.
cheers,
Michael
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