On 5/7/07, Norman Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
robert burrell donkin schrieb:
> On 5/7/07, Norman Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> I will try to contact some debian developers when I have some time
>> aviable ..
>
> i always found debian a complete PITA java-wise but feel free to give
> it a go
>
> <rant>
> debian have tried very, very hard to put as many obstacles in the way
> of running open source java application on linux as they can. in the
> time that it's taken sun to open source java, they haven't even been
> able to agree a *policy* on java. basically, if it's not FSF then
> debian aren't interested.
> </rant>
>
> - robert
I know..
things seem to have changed round since i last dropped in (which was a
few years ago). it's just the documentation that hasn't been updated.
bumped into thom in the ubuntu chat room and he thinks that there
really shouldn't be too many problems provided. most of the apache
stuff in java is now in main, rather than contrib.
the first step needs to be getting james running on harmony. this
means downloading harmony and seeing if the last james release builds
and the unit tests run out of the box. if not, then we need to hop
onto the lists and ask people to fix the issues.
But if thats the way to get it accepted in Ubuntu later we
should try it
definitely: we need to work with downstreams
anyway, if debian is now less difficult license-wise for java then it
was, it would be good to be packaged with debian
- robert
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