Hamish Moffatt kiedys napisal: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:22:31AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: >> On Monday 31 October 2005 05:28, Dalibor Topic wrote: >> > The packagers used a specific free runtime to make the eclipse package >> > build and work, so they made that runtime specifically part of the >> > dependencies, as that's a configuration the packagers can focus on to >> > support. >> > >> > You are most welcome to contribute, and help improve the eclipse >> > packages. >> >> This does _not_ make a lot of sense. It would make much more sense to >> suggest gcj/gij >> and depend on java-virtual-machine. This leaves it up the the user to >> decide if he can >> use a non-free jvm. I my case many of the apps I use (non-debian) fail >> with the free >> jvms. In short this type of depends is, IMO a bug. It will force me, >> and many others, to bypass the packaging system, which is usually a bad >> idea. > > Your argument is only reasonable if your non-free Java environment is a > complete drop-in replacement for building and running Eclipse. > > If not, then you're asking for extra work to be done to support multiple > JVMs. If that's what you need, patches are probably welcome. > > > Hamish Maybe not. Original (downloaded) Eclipse version works with both gcj/gij and Sun JDK. And I think that with Sable and kaffe it could also work wothout patching as far as I know. Maybe when all Eclipse packages will be available, I will repack it and try with each virtual machine. -- Registered Linux User 369908 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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