Re: Pseudo-package for JVM needed?
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Mike Goldman wrote:
> I am maintaining jikes, the presently (but hopefully
> not-for-much-longer) non-free Java compiler from IBM. It depends on
> having a third-party JVM, but apparently kaffe works as well as Sun's
> jdk for this purpose. In order to facilitate movement into main once
> the outstanding license issues are resolved (as I am promised is being
> reviewed by the lawyers right now), I have made jikes dependent on
> either jdk1.1 or kaffe.
Excellent. That was me pestering you about that :-)
>
> However, it is not too unlikely that other JVMs may be available, or
> could become available in the future. In order to facilitate a
> selection of JVMs by the end-user, without my having to continuously
> monitor alternatives and release new packages when I discover them,
> might it be a good idea to have a JVM pseudo package provided by these
> packages?
Indeed, it is very likely that japhar will become available.
On the debian-java mailing lists, we have been discussing this a bit. At
some point, we have a formalised debian-java policy, which will certainly
include such virtual packages.
Please join us on the list, if you're interested.
Jules
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