Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Måns Rullgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The Eclipse authors do not tell you which JVM to use. > > But Debian does, when it says: > Depends: j2re1.4 | j2re1.3 | java2-runtime > > So the eclipse-platform distributed by Debian *does* call on a > particular JVM. And it isn't kaffe, it's Sun's.
Then why on earth does the license of Kaffe have any relevance whatsoever to Eclipse? > We do document the technical fact that you can programatically > substitute kaffe for any java-runtime. So? How does this make Eclipse a derivative of Kaffe? >> It is compiled against an interface, not an implementation. Which >> particular implementation was used while compiling is irrelevant. > > Can you support this assertion? The program, including its libraries, > which the developer intends to put on end-user systems appears quite > relevant to me. If I write a program in Java (it has happened), I intend for the end-user to run it under any JVM of his choice. I don't care which one chooses. The only reason I can see for suggesting a specific implementation is for support issues, e.g. "we only provide support for running our product under JVM implementation X". -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED]
