On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:39:05PM +0200, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi, > > > Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > >> Speaking of alternatives, it would be nice to have a mean to completely > >> switch from one Java alternative to another. Currently you need to > >> modify > >> more than 10 different alternatives in order to switch from e.g. kaffe > >> to > >> Sun's Java or back. > >> I don't know how this could be fixed, but this is cumbersome. Wouldn't > >> it > >> be possible to define only alternatives for java and javac, and > >> everything > >> else would be slave alternatives of the both, depending if they're meant > >> to be Runtime or Development commands? > > > > You are correct. A solution to this problem has been incorporated into > > java-common 0.25: update-java-alternatives(8) > > > Thanks for the hint, I've just seen that java-common 0.25 entered testing, > so I should have it soon installed on my laptop. > > Else, for all your enhancement points, +1. But you don't need to be DD to > fix them, just do a reportbug and attach a patch ;-)
Right, patches are a good thing to attach to bug reports. That is the best. Somehow mails in the lists tend to get forgotten more easily. cheers, Michael -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]