Il giorno ven, 15/05/2009 alle 09.53 +0100, Andrew Haley ha scritto: > Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > 2009/5/14 Kelly O'Hair <kelly.oh...@sun.com>: > >> If the OpenJDK was able to build with jibx 1.1.6 or 1.2.1, > >> or in general was able to build with more of the jibx versions > >> (I don't know how hard that would be) does that change things? > > > > It would simplify things a little, yes. I'm not sure it's possible, > > given builds with both older and newer versions fail for different > > reasons. It seems the package doesn't attempt any kind of stable API. > > That surely is the key point. > > It doesn't matter how much we might want a specific version of JIBX, > it isn't going to happen for Linux distributions. Distros generally > pick a particular version of Package X, and if Package Y needs some > other version of Package X then Package Y must be patched or dropped > from the distribution. > > We are not in a position to dictate to a user exactly which version of > JIBX will be installed on their system. Therefore, if JIBX is now a > dependency of OpenJDK we'll have to find a way to make OpenJDK work > with whatever versions of JIBX people choose. > > Andrew.
I second that, and don't like the idea of being able to disable Nimbus because of this dependency. Cheers, Mario -- Mario Torre, Software Developer, http://www.jroller.com/neugens/ aicas Allerton Interworks Computer Automated Systems GmbH Haid-und-Neu-Straße 18 * D-76131 Karlsruhe * Germany http://www.aicas.com * Tel: +49-721-663 968-44 pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF USt-Id: DE216375633, Handelsregister HRB 109481, AG Mannheim Geschäftsführer: Dr. James J. Hunt Please, support open standards: http://endsoftpatents.org/
