Re: Editor for the Java policy (Was: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository

1999-11-08 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 02:57:39PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Any volunteer to serve as the editor? It means writing the policy (not a lot > of characters/lines but every word has to be carefully choosen), merging > patches, patching the packages to test if the policy is realistic, sendi

Re: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository

1999-11-08 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 05:26:55PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - ease of use for new users (no .bashrc to edit) and for the sysadmin > > (there is no way in Unix to set a system-wide env. variable), - > > consistency between a shell into xterm ran by Gnome, a shell made after > > a telnet/r

Re: libpgjava (Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 5)

1999-11-08 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
I'll also volenteer as a backup if Stefan changes his mind. I use postgres all over the place. On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 12:36:48PM +0100, Stefan Gybas wrote: > I'll take it - I've been using the PostgreSQL JDBC driver for some time > in my servlets and didn't have any problems (but I didn't use the

Re: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository

1999-11-08 Thread flight
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 02:44:04PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Saturday 6 November 1999, at 18 h 14, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I do understand that Debian policy discourages the concept of a > > program requiring that an environment variabl

Editor for the Java policy (Was: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository

1999-11-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Saturday 6 November 1999, at 18 h 14, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that it is a bit late in the game to get this concept into > freeze [No longer an issue.] > If this idea is recieved favorably perhaps it and some other > formalizations can be fol

Re: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository

1999-11-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sunday 7 November 1999, at 15 h 30, the keyboard of Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While we are at it: I already expressed my dislike for the naming scheme > in the policy (lib-X-java) which is taken from C libraries. This is a more general Policy issue. See bug #41113.

Re: Hurd and Java[FW]

1999-11-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 10:30:52PM -0700, Jim Franklin wrote: > For the the Hurd developers the benefit would be in a higher > profile for the Hurd as well as bringing in some real cool capabilities > to the Hurd. Note that the Sun License for Java is pretty much non-free, and nobody here will be

Re: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository

1999-11-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sunday 7 November 1999, at 7 h 40, the keyboard of Christopher Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) The global CLASSPATH environmental variable never worked for me. I have > too > many different versions of JVMs (blackdown, ibm, kaffe, 1.1, 1.2) Yes, that the major pain with most Java envi

Re: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository

1999-11-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Saturday 6 November 1999, at 18 h 14, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do understand that Debian policy discourages the concept of a > program requiring that an environment variable be set in order to > operate sanely. Note there are several reasons to do s

Working again on the Debian Java policy (Was: FREEZE RESCHEDULED

1999-11-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sunday 7 November 1999, at 13 h 19, the keyboard of Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm rescheduling the > freeze for mid-January, the weekend of the 15th and 16th. Therefore, we have more time for the Debian Java policy. I suspended any work on it because I thought potato was

(no subject)

1999-11-08 Thread Wolfgang Römer
unsubscribe

Re: Hurd and Java[FW]

1999-11-08 Thread Jim Franklin
Hi Ean, Thanks for the response, I figured you be moving like crazy getting Kaffee ready for the potato freeze. I've been passing info as it relates to the Hurd and java along to debian-java in the hopes that it might be of benefit to the debian-java developers as well as the Hurd developers.