Re: Canonical Will Remove Java From Ubuntu

2011-12-22 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 10:41 Thu 22 Dec , Paul Howarth wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:17:15 + Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/21/2011 10:45 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: On 21.12.2011 18:52, Andrew Haley wrote: There really is very little difference between the com.sun.* classes in OpenJDK and

Re: Canonical Will Remove Java From Ubuntu

2011-12-22 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 14:12 Thu 22 Dec , Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 12/21/2011 06:52 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 12/21/2011 05:09 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: On 20.12.2011 19:30, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Probably because OpenJDK and SunJDK aren't really that compatible. Well, hold on. Both the

Re: Canonical Will Remove Java From Ubuntu

2011-12-21 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 18:09 Wed 21 Dec , Matej Cepl wrote: On 20.12.2011 19:30, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Probably because OpenJDK and SunJDK aren't really that compatible. I am afraid that most of these problems are caused by stupid developers who are using (against all advices they were given)

Re: Canonical Will Remove Java From Ubuntu

2011-12-19 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 06:54 Sun 18 Dec , Neal Becker wrote: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=159737 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Saw this on LWN. It's because of Oracle licensing changes and may actually mean

Re: Upgrading libpng: shall we move to 1.4.x or 1.5.x?

2011-11-04 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 13:12 Fri 04 Nov , Tom Lane wrote: I have been looking into replacing Fedora's obsolete version of libpng (1.2.x release series) with something more modern. The possible choices are the 1.4.x and 1.5.x release series. The 1.5.x series adds some more features that 1.4.x did not have,

Re: Bug in javac ?

2011-10-31 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 16:48 Mon 31 Oct , Andrew Haley wrote: Am 31.10.2011 17:00, schrieb Deepak Bhole: It looks like a known bug in the 6 compiler related to interface inheritance and covariant return types. I think this is the commit that fixed it in 7:

Re: java-1.7.0-openjdk breaks java detection in LibreOffice?

2011-10-26 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 19:58 Wed 26 Oct , Heiko Adams wrote: Am 26.10.2011 19:06, schrieb Jared K. Smith: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Heiko Adams fedora-upda...@heiko-adams.de wrote: is it just me or is java-1.7.0-openjdk breaking LibreOffice java detection? Sounds like it might be related

Re: Java 7 for Fedora 16

2011-08-01 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 10:55 Fri 29 Jul , Deepak Bhole wrote: * Omair Majid oma...@redhat.com [2011-07-29 10:32]: On 07/25/2011 04:04 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote: * Bill Nottinghamnott...@redhat.com [2011-07-25 15:54]: Toshio Kuratomi (a.bad...@gmail.com) said: Robyn and I have talked about how the feature

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 07:41 Thu 04 Nov , Ralf Corsepius wrote: snip... As a maintainer, abrt to me primarily means wading through wakes of hardly readable emails, mostly to scan them for useful information. I many cases I ended up with closing BZ, because these emails did not contain sufficient info.

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 17:54 Thu 04 Nov , Frank Murphy wrote: On 04/11/10 17:51, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: This is the problem we have with java-1.6.0-openjdk, except it's magnified by the fact that the user could be running *ANYTHING* on the JVM. So if some native code in a Java application

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 19:06 Thu 04 Nov , Jiri Moskovcak wrote: On 11/04/2010 06:56 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: On 17:54 Thu 04 Nov , Frank Murphy wrote: On 04/11/10 17:51, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: This is the problem we have with java-1.6.0-openjdk, except it's magnified by the fact

Re: Java3D?

2010-10-18 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 12:53 Sun 17 Oct , Eric Smith wrote: Has anyone worked on packaging Java3D for Fedora? Or is there any reason that it wouldn't be acceptable for inclusion in Fedora? I haven't really looked into packaging Java3D yet, but I want to package ReplicatorG, which is used to control 3D