Re: Suggestion for javadoc building

2002-10-04 Thread Mark Howard
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:59:26PM +0200, Torsten Knodt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, most libraries have api docs created with javadocs. When calling javadoc, links can be given to link to the used api's. I think there should be a central registry

JNI Installation Directories

2002-10-04 Thread Ben Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I'd like to make two proposals regarding JNI that I'd like to see in java policy. 1) Common JNI library directory: I'd like to see all JNI modules, i.e., the C libraries that implement the native Java methods, placed in /usr/lib/jni/. I

java-compiler useless?

2002-10-04 Thread Mark Howard
Hi, What is the purpose of the java-compiler package? including javac is only a 'should' in the policy, so it is pointless to build-depend on java-compiler. Therefore, packages must depends on gcj|jikes|... and have lots of code to determine which is being used. Would it not be better to say

Re: java-compiler useless?

2002-10-04 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:56:17AM +0100, Mark Howard wrote: Hi, Hi What is the purpose of the java-compiler package? including javac is only a 'should' in the policy, so it is pointless to build-depend on java-compiler. Therefore, packages must depends on gcj|jikes|... and have lots of

Re: java-compiler useless?

2002-10-04 Thread Ben Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Therefore, packages must depends on gcj|jikes|... and have lots of code to determine which is being used. My java packages tend to build-depend on just one of these compilers, since unfortunately the compilers are not all as compatible as you'd

Re: java-compiler useless?

2002-10-04 Thread Mark Howard
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:48, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Policy feedback is apriciated. How do you think the text should be instead? 2.2. Java compilers Java compilers must depend on java-common and the needed runtime environment (java1-runtime and/or java2-runtime). Where possible, java compilers

Re: Suggestion for javadoc building

2002-10-04 Thread Mark Howard
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:59:26PM +0200, Torsten Knodt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, most libraries have api docs created with javadocs. When calling javadoc, links can be given to link to the used api's. I think there should be a central registry

JNI Installation Directories

2002-10-04 Thread Ben Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I'd like to make two proposals regarding JNI that I'd like to see in java policy. 1) Common JNI library directory: I'd like to see all JNI modules, i.e., the C libraries that implement the native Java methods, placed in /usr/lib/jni/. I

Re: JNI Installation Directories

2002-10-04 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I realise (2) is a tall order for JVM maintainers, but I believe it will make things somewhat more sane in the long run for apps or libraries that use JNI classes. Consider writing a Java program that uses library X which uses library Y which has JNI