On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 02:32:22PM +0200, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Hi ! > > Le lundi 2 avril 2007 09:59, Michael Koch a écrit : > > Currently jbidwatcher depends directly on sun-java6-jre. Please add > > support for other Java runtimes by depending on > > > > java1-runtime | java2-runtime | sun-java6-jre > > Current package does not run with any other java runtime. > > > If its possible to run jbidwatcher to run with java-gcj-compat, it should > > be moved to the main section of the archive. Another idea would be to > > maintain this package under the Debian Java Maintainers umbrella. If you > > have questions about all this, please mail me. > > I have spent few hours yesterday getting the software to build under a free > java compiler. I could build it with kaffe and gcj at least. > > But I cannot run it properly under any existing jvm, here is the output, > which > is the same with either gcj of kaffe builds: > * kaffe is definitly too slow on my amd64. Unfortunatly it is at a correct > speed under a i386 chroot... > * jamvm and sablevm segfault while running the .jar. > * gij starts but the GUI is unusable, elements are displayed only when the > mouse passes over, and menu does not work > * cacao simply hang..
That are bugs and should be reported/fixed. When etch is out I will upload new versions of most of these runtimes which will improve the situation a lot. > I can provide modified sources that compile with gcj if you whish to dig on > this. > My idea is that sun java should be free as I read so is it worth doing all of > this ? Well, it is not free yet. Another problem is that you depend on a specific version of it. Why not support JDK 5 or JDK 7 (which will be the free one hopefully). There are SUN-derived runtimes too like Blackdown or IBM JDK. You limit your userbase for no reason. Cheers, -- .''`. | Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : | Free Java Developer <http://www.classpath.org> `. `' | `- | 1024D/BAC5 4B28 D436 95E6 F2E0 BD11 5923 A008 2763 483B
