On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 16:38, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Herman Robak wrote:
> | And the Java packages in Debian stable are truly > | ancient. You pretty much have to use unofficial > | packages, or forego anything more involved than > | running Java applets. > > What is your point in the above? Java applets and precompiled Java apps are just a subset of the Java universe. If you only have JRE, not JDK, your capabilties are limited. You can't teach Java programming with just JRE, for example. > I suggested discussing with debian-legal@ the possibility of legally > packaging and redistributing a newer version of SUN's JRE. And vented my frustrations with Java and Debian in general. I don't blame Debian. I'm just not very happy about the situation. -- Herman Robak
