Re: How to express dependencies for Java(TM)?
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
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