Gregory Shimansky wrote:
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
Gregory Shimansky wrote:
Alexey Petrenko wrote:
Don't you need to specify exact version of library you depend on?
It is up to distributions to care about the exact version of
libraries that they provide. When they build and test harmony with
these libraries the exact version will be recorded in the package.
Hang on - what do you mean "when they build and test harmony?" I'm
sure that some distros may do that - get the TCK license from Sun and
test - I'm not convinced it will be many. It will be up to us, at
least at first, to start doing certified builds for a matrix of
precise versions and distros. "harmony for linux" isn't going to cut
the mustard.
I don't think distros will do any TCK testing. They will assume that any
build passes TCK as long as we claim that we did pass it.
They can't call it Java then, nor claim it conformant. Only a binary can
be tested conformant. The source has no "conformance-ness"
It is quite
different, Java conformance (in the sense of passing TCK) or just
another Linux Java implementation along with kaffe and gcj with
classpath. Do kaffe and gcj have TCK certification on all distributions,
is it really needed?
If you want to call it Java, yes.
Under testing I meant that distributions will test compatibility between
Harmony and the media libraries versions which are used in distribution
version.
I can't imagine to what avail if they want Java.
geir
