On 18/08/2008, Yulia Novozhilova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > > The more obvious question for me is why NetBeans needs a fork of this > > in the first place. The Debian OpenJDK team have already gone through > > the extensive task of verifying this code legally to package OpenJDK > > 6, which is now in unstable and testing: > > > > > http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=openjdk-6 > > > > Having another copy in another package seems ludicrous and a > > duplication of existing work. > > > > > There are users who want to use NetBeans but don't want to install openjdk. > (you can find an example here: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netbeans/+bug/258844) > They already have sun-java6-jdk installed and expect NetBeans to work on > it. > That is why NetBeans needs a fork of the code included into openjdk. > > Thanks, > Yulia > > > > >
It doesn't explain why a fork is needed. It just says that NetBeans has to be able to work against either the langtools from OpenJDK or the proprietary Sun JDK. As I read it, a fork solution is suggesting a third alternative, namely to include another different copy of the langtools for NetBeans. In short, what is the reason NetBeans can't just work against the tools.zip in either JDK? -- Andrew :-) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
