Re: Java Policy.
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:31:43PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> On Sunday 12 May 2002 22:00, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:40:05PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > > I disagree on that class files should be placed in a -dev package for the
> > > same reason as I want every jar file to be placed in /usr/share/java
> > > (maybe with an exception for jvm:s). You should always be allowed
> > > to use the classes for some other purpose than just for some
> > > executable to run.
> >
> > Ok, then it is just a question of naming. Say my foo library can be
Yes. But the naming is there so it wont conflict with the C (i.e. elf bin)
packages (same as with perl etc).
> > compiled to .class files and GCJ .so files. One option is to
> > package both in libfoo-java, which would be architecture specific.
> > But if you want to split them into an architecture-specific and an
> > architecture-independent package, what do you call them? libfoo-java
> > and libfoo-gcj-java?
Maybe we should have a "standard" extension of gcj here?
> If it would be architecture specific it would be like stuff compiled from C.
> Thus libfoo and not libfoo-gcj-java...
I was just about to say the same. Maybe we should state in the java policy
that it incly covers packages that produces java bytecode. And that the
-java name is reserved for such packages.
> However, if libfoo is taken already you have trouble; then you would have a
> name clash and libfoo-gcj might not be too bad...
Agreed.
Regards,
// Ola
> Egon
>
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