Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2008-01-12 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Vincent Fourmond wrote: - debug output of java version found, and how the java command was found (it helps a great lot when users ask for help and have e.g. a dangling environment variable). When DEBUG_WRAPPERS is set, the JAVA_HOME found is written. Thanks, my point was also to call jav

Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2008-01-07 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Hello, Eric Lavarde wrote: > comparing the wrapper script from FreeMind, version 0.9.0, not yet in > Debian [1], and your script, I'm missing the following features: > > - no check that JAVA_CMD actually exists and is executable if the > variable is set. I've modified that. > - /usr/bin/ja

Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2008-01-06 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Vincent, comparing the wrapper script from FreeMind, version 0.9.0, not yet in Debian [1], and your script, I'm missing the following features: - no check that JAVA_CMD actually exists and is executable if the variable is set. - /usr/bin/java as last fallback if nothing else helps. - debu

Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2008-01-05 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Hello, Michael Koch wrote: >>> Before we move stuff into Debian java-common it should be completely >>> working for most cases. I've looked at a fair amount of wrapper scripts, and the wrappers.sh library I propose can be used to provide all their functionalities easily save one, for bsh, w

Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2008-01-05 Thread Michael Koch
Hello, On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 06:18:48PM +0100, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > Michael Koch wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:42:30PM +0100, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > > java-common in Ubuntu has another mechanism applied to it (but its > > unused currently). Perhaps its possible to merge stuff fr

Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2008-01-04 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Michael Koch wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:42:30PM +0100, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > java-common in Ubuntu has another mechanism applied to it (but its > unused currently). Perhaps its possible to merge stuff from that. If I read the code right, they just have a list of possible JAVA_HOME i

Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2008-01-04 Thread Michael Koch
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:42:30PM +0100, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > > Hello, > > Michael Koch wrote: > > "find_java_runtime" is harder. You actually need to run the programs to > > really find out if a runtime works with a given program. > > Well, this approach won't be practical. I preferre

Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2008-01-04 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Hello, Michael Koch wrote: > "find_java_runtime" is harder. You actually need to run the programs to > really find out if a runtime works with a given program. Well, this approach won't be practical. I preferred to use a system of 'capacities' : do we need swing, some of sun's classes, a jav

Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2007-12-30 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
2007/12/29, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:08:33AM +0100, Vincent Fourmond wrote: Hello Vincent, Thanks for your suggestion. > "find_java_runtime" is harder. You actually need to run the programs to > really find out if a runtime works with a given program. Maybe

Re: Java wrappers and java-common

2007-12-29 Thread Michael Koch
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:08:33AM +0100, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > > Hello, > > Many java packages provide runnable programs living in /usr/bin under > the form of a wrapper sh script. Most of them use essentially the same > or very similar code, although some are obviously of much better qu