Re: finding Java on Linux

2009-10-15 Thread Andi Vajda
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Bill Janssen wrote: Andi Vajda wrote: I was making suggestions in the context of simplifying the common case: PyLucene users don't care (they're Python users first) what Java version they use or have and just want it to work (tm). They're happy to just have one version o

Re: finding Java on Linux

2009-10-15 Thread Bill Janssen
Andi Vajda wrote: > I was making suggestions in the context of simplifying the common > case: PyLucene users don't care (they're Python users first) what Java > version they use or have and just want it to work (tm). They're happy > to just have one version of Java installed and put it on their P

Re: why not setuptools?

2009-10-15 Thread Andi Vajda
On Oct 15, 2009, at 9:42, Bill Janssen wrote: Felix Schwarz wrote: Am 15.10.2009 07:01, schrieb Andi Vajda: If distutils or the new fork grows the ability to build a regular shared library, I'd be less wedded to setuptools. Maybe you want to contact the distribute guys which is a setup

Re: finding Java on Linux

2009-10-15 Thread Andi Vajda
On Oct 15, 2009, at 9:40, Bill Janssen wrote: Andi Vajda wrote: Emit an error message that says "sorry, gcj is not supported, please use OpenJDK or Sun JDK" and abort. Right. That's the problem, as I see it. If you have Sun Java installed, it's not necessarily first on your path. But y

Re: why not setuptools?

2009-10-15 Thread Bill Janssen
Felix Schwarz wrote: > Am 15.10.2009 07:01, schrieb Andi Vajda: > > If distutils or the new fork grows the ability to build a regular shared > > library, I'd be less wedded to setuptools. > > Maybe you want to contact the distribute guys which is a setuptools > fork. I know that some Linux distr

Re: finding Java on Linux

2009-10-15 Thread Bill Janssen
Andi Vajda wrote: > Emit an error message that says "sorry, gcj is not supported, please > use OpenJDK or Sun JDK" and abort. Right. That's the problem, as I see it. If you have Sun Java installed, it's not necessarily first on your path. But you want to find it, even if it's masked by gcj.

Re: why not setuptools?

2009-10-15 Thread Felix Schwarz
Am 15.10.2009 07:01, schrieb Andi Vajda: If distutils or the new fork grows the ability to build a regular shared library, I'd be less wedded to setuptools. Maybe you want to contact the distribute guys which is a setuptools fork. I know that some Linux distributions are using distribute alre