Somebody interested in packaging Jython ?

2001-04-04 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Hi, the BTS still holds my ITP to package JPython (nowadays called Jython). Jython is an implementation of the Python language in pure Java, see http://www.jython.org/. As much as I'm interested in the issues involved with a painless coexistence of C-Python and Jython on Debian, I haven't really

Somebody interested in packaging Jython ?

2001-04-04 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Hi, the BTS still holds my ITP to package JPython (nowadays called Jython). Jython is an implementation of the Python language in pure Java, see http://www.jython.org/. As much as I'm interested in the issues involved with a painless coexistence of C-Python and Jython on Debian, I haven't really

Re: Java 1.2 & 1.3 'in' testing

2001-03-14 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:48:11AM +0100, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > Footnotes: > > [1] There's one restriction: If somebody wants to distribute the > > packages on CD he has to ask Sun/Blackdown for permission. > > Wouldn't that be a problem? Since Debian is shipped as CD very often? > You c

Re: Java 1.2 & 1.3 'in' testing

2001-03-14 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:48:11AM +0100, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > Footnotes: > > [1] There's one restriction: If somebody wants to distribute the > > packages on CD he has to ask Sun/Blackdown for permission. > > Wouldn't that be a problem? Since Debian is shipped as CD very often? > You

Java viable for cross-platform GUI applications ?

2000-07-20 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Certainly a silly question for this list: Do you think Java is currently a viable platform for cross-platform, shrink-wrap GUI applications ? I.e. if you had a proprietary consumer application for Windows and MacOS, and you were looking for a strategy that also worked for Linux, would you consider

Java viable for cross-platform GUI applications ?

2000-07-20 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Certainly a silly question for this list: Do you think Java is currently a viable platform for cross-platform, shrink-wrap GUI applications ? I.e. if you had a proprietary consumer application for Windows and MacOS, and you were looking for a strategy that also worked for Linux, would you consider

Java binaries: CLASSPATH, -classpath, -cp?

1999-08-17 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Hi, I found that JPython now finally works with the recent kaffe version, therefore I thought I should try to finish the package according to the Java Policy draft. I ran into several problems, and thought I might ask for help ;-) JPython comes as jpython.jar, with a few other utility files that