Michael Koch wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:22:19PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>elijah wright wrote: >> >>>>I am trying to package a couple of programs that depend on IBM or Sun >>>>JDK (for build) and JRE (for execution). I know that this means the >>>>packages will end up in contrib. However, I am not sure what the >>>>correct way to express the depends and build- depends. Can someone >>>>help me out on this? >>> >>> >>>do they *really* depend on a non-free jdk, or will they run with kaffe >>>or sablevm? >>> >>>--elijah >>> >>> >> >>Yes. All are heavy Swing/AWT apps. TTBOMK, that makes any free java a >>non-player. > > > Better try it out before doing such statements. AWT mainly just works. > Swing is progressing fast. The above statement depends heavily on the app > you wanna run and it should not be just said to try to avoid free software > alternatives. > > > Michael Point taken. One I know for certain uses features specific to the Sun JDK (it is for a school project). Eventually I hope to be able to get rid of the Sun-isms. In the mean time, I would like to be able to get the pacakge built properly. Also, are there any good references on getting Java apps to compile with free Java development tools? (No, I have not yet Googled for this info). -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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