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Re: Policy change proposal - JVMs Provides: requirements



W liście z nie, 19-01-2003, godz. 23:17, Dalibor Topic pisze: 
> --- Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:22:23PM +0100, Grzegorz
> > B. Prokopski wrote:
> 
> > > I don't know what 99% or what 80% is. Fact is that
> > aside of Kaffe,
> > > the other free JVMs use indirectly (like gcj) or
> > directly one single
> > > source of it's classpath lisbrary - GNU Classpath.
> > I really doubt if this
> > > project has reached 80% of what java 1.2
> > (especially in the area of
> > > graphical interfaces) should be. I think that *I*
> > would use GNU
> > > Classpath as the 100% here (then we can have JVMs
> > that support more
> > > than 100% ;-). But I don't really expect you to
> > write it down to
> > > the policy.
> > 
> > Hmm. It it that bad. I was not aware of that
> > actually. In some way
> > we have to define java1-runtime in a good way.
> > Define it against
> > a moving target (like classpath) might not be a good
> > thing. On the
> > other hand it might be the best way...
> 
> Well, seems like you guys are looking for some numbers
> ;) Check the japitools JDK API compatibility pages at
> http://rainbow.netreach.net/~sballard/japi/
Thanks for the link. However in this case the APIs are compared,
not if they really work. There's a lot of stubs in GNU Classpath,
so I doubt if this comparison method is sutiable for our purpose.
Every JVM that uses GNU Classpath would get same results. It's
comparison of classpaths not JVMs.

> > > As for my proposals, I think I'd do it this way:
> > > 1. Define exactly what requirements must be met
> > for JVM to be able
> > > to _legally_ provide java-virtual-machine,
> > java*-runtime etc.
> > 
> > Then we can agree on that. The problem is to define
> > it... :(
> 
> I don't understand the term 'legally' in this context.
> What legal requirements are there?
Legally - after meeting the (future, planned) requirements of
Java Policy for the JVMs that want to have such Provides:.

Regards

				Grzegorz B. Prokopski
-- 
Grzegorz B. Prokopski <gadek@debian.org>
Debian http://www.debian.org/

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