Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-16 Thread Ben Burton
Additionally, I still question the wisdom of the shared JNI directory. From what I understand, there are different versions of JNI and you cannot count on the idea that all JNI libraries are simply going to work with all VMs. It's not clear to me that different versions of JNI can even

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-16 Thread Ben Burton
Additionally, I still question the wisdom of the shared JNI directory. From what I understand, there are different versions of JNI and you cannot count on the idea that all JNI libraries are simply going to work with all VMs. Further to my last email, I should add that this is not an issue

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-16 Thread Ben Burton
Additionally, I still question the wisdom of the shared JNI directory. From what I understand, there are different versions of JNI and you cannot count on the idea that all JNI libraries are simply going to work with all VMs. It's not clear to me that different versions of JNI can even

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-16 Thread Ben Burton
Additionally, I still question the wisdom of the shared JNI directory. From what I understand, there are different versions of JNI and you cannot count on the idea that all JNI libraries are simply going to work with all VMs. Further to my last email, I should add that this is not an issue

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-15 Thread Ean Schuessler
My apologies. We installed a new mail server and I was in a car wreck shortly after so some configuration issues went unattended. I have built packages for 1.1.1 for Intel and they seem to work well enough. I need to verify that I can stop using pthreads. Under 1.0.7 I could not get ant to spawn

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-15 Thread Stefan Gybas
Hi Ean, My apologies. We installed a new mail server and I was in a car wreck shortly after so some configuration issues went unattended. I have built packages for 1.1.1 for Intel and they seem to work well enough. I need to verify that I can stop using pthreads. Under 1.0.7 I could not get ant

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-15 Thread Ean Schuessler
My apologies. We installed a new mail server and I was in a car wreck shortly after so some configuration issues went unattended. I have built packages for 1.1.1 for Intel and they seem to work well enough. I need to verify that I can stop using pthreads. Under 1.0.7 I could not get ant to spawn

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-15 Thread Stefan Gybas
Hi Ean, My apologies. We installed a new mail server and I was in a car wreck shortly after so some configuration issues went unattended. I have built packages for 1.1.1 for Intel and they seem to work well enough. I need to verify that I can stop using pthreads. Under 1.0.7 I could not get ant to

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-15 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On 15 Aug 2003 14:44:02 -0500 Ean Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built packages for 1.1.1 for Intel and they seem to work well enough. Very good news! :-D Sorry again for my absentee behavior. You're welcome ;) -- Arnaud Vandyck, STE fi, ULg Formateur Cellule

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:04:30PM +0200, Daniel Bonniot wrote: But ... the FSF doesn't think that code licensed under a GPL incompatible license can be allowed to run on a GPLd VM (i.e. kaffe). Could you give a link that details this point? s/point/insanity/ -- - mdz -- To

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 23:48:40 +1000 Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, maybe this is short. On the other hand, one can take into consideration that the last message of Ean about upgrading (at that time it was to kaffe 1.1.0) was almost two month ago (see #196867).

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:13:57 -0700 Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arnaud Vandyck wrote: A phone call may be worthwhile. Is it a joke?! :-| Why should it be a joke? If you want to contact someone and are having trouble contacting them by email, but you have a phone number for

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Burton
Ant will move to main as soon as a Kaffe 1.1 package is uploaded. This is wonderful news. Upload Kaffe 1.1 and you'll see faster results than rewriting Makefiles. :-) Indeed. Although since maintainers have happily sat for a year on ant build systems without writing a few makefiles, I'm

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Stefan Gybas
Per Bothner wrote: Which email address are you using? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I got an answer from Ean after a couple of minutes. He said that he would package Kaffe 1.1 but he did not say when. As I've said, this was about one month ago and I've not heard from him since then. Stefan -- To

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Dalibor Topic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salut Arnaud, Bien le bonjour! ;) thanks for making an updated package for kaffe. Did you manage to get in touch with Ean? Yes, I tried but a mailer daemon asked me to confirm (a

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Stefan Gybas
Stefan Gybas wrote: Unfortunately, your packages don't work - at least on i386. Building libant1.5-java with your Kaffe package fails. The Ant build process calls itself during the build (and thus starts a JVM) but using JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/kaffe does not compile and classes at all. The JVM

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel Bonniot
Doesn't a few days seem abnormally short notice for such a major NMU - not a bugfix but an entire new upstream release? Yes, maybe this is short. On the other hand, one can take into consideration that the last message of Ean about upgrading (at that time it was to kaffe 1.1.0) was almost two

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Per Bothner
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: A phone call may be worthwhile. Is it a joke?! :-| Why should it be a joke? If you want to contact someone and are having trouble contacting them by email, but you have a phone number for their place of business, then a phone is a very practical tool. -- --Per

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Burton
Kaffe has RC bugs which are open for 3 months (not counting your bug report about /usr/lib/jni) - all of them either include a patch or are easy to fix. Kaffe has been removed from testing because of this and now keeps other Java packages (like jikes, see #203054) from moving to testing.

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-14 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 08:34:20 -0700 Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Which email address are you using? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes [...] A phone call may be worthwhile. Is it a joke?! :-| -- Arnaud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Daniel Bonniot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The gij interpreter is quite advanced and for me works better than kaffe in almost all cases where I've done a comparison. There is no reason (in most cases) that an out-of-date kaffe should be a bottleneck for packages progressing into main.

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-08 Thread Daniel Bonniot
time would be better spent persuading the FSF and ASF to get together on their licenses and make either the GPL ASL compatible or the other way round. who kknows, maybe you won't waste the time and they get their ideals/egos out of the way and work out a compromise. I'm not following this stuff

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-07 Thread Daniel Bonniot
And thus with a small amount of work I was able to adjust jython to use Makefiles and as a result jython was able to ship with woody, even though ant was not. This put the decision in a new light. Yes, your goal being to get Jython in woody, it made sense to work on that. Now that woody is

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-07 Thread Stefan Gybas
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: I've just repack kaffe-1.1.1 (apt-get source kaffe; and uupdate) Thanks a lot! We really need to have Kaffe 1.1 packages soon. Unfortunately, your packages don't work - at least on i386. Building libant1.5-java with your Kaffe package fails. The Ant build process calls

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-07 Thread Per Bothner
Stefan Gybas wrote: The availability of the new upstream release was reported almost 2 months ago (with a list of bugs that are fixed by this upstream release) and I've sent Ean another mail about a month ago. How much longer should we wait? Which email address are you using? [EMAIL

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Stefan Gybas
Daniel Bonniot wrote: ant seems very close to getting into main (since kaffe 1.1 is known to it), what about we focus on getting kaffe 1.1 and ant, and consequently loads of other Java packages, into main for sarge? Hey, in case you didn't notice: I've been focussing on this for the last couple

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the problem, and the reasons you cite are reasons for wanting to NMU in the first place, not for doing a highly irregular new upstream NMU right now. For such a significant change I'd allow Ean ample time to respond (and perhaps this

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:43:33PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: Incidentally, several java packages could move from contrib into main if the maintainers could simply take the time to write their own Makefiles instead of relying on the default ant build system which is in contrib, e.g., #163168.

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Ben Burton
You can see that I introduced some problems because I'm not familiar with the package but as I am on holliday, I'm trying to help Debian the more I can;) Oh, I appreciate your work. I wasn't arguing against your packages - I was arguing against the proposal to do a new upstream NMU for

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Daniel Bonniot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But ... the FSF doesn't think that code licensed under a GPL incompatible license can be allowed to run on a GPLd VM (i.e. kaffe). Could you give a link that details this point? read the threads:

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Daniel Bonniot
But ... the FSF doesn't think that code licensed under a GPL incompatible license can be allowed to run on a GPLd VM (i.e. kaffe). Could you give a link that details this point? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Per Bothner
Dalibor Topic wrote: But ... the FSF doesn't think that code licensed under a GPL incompatible license can be allowed to run on a GPLd VM (i.e. kaffe). So it may not be what debian wants/needs ;) Since the GCJ VM/runtime is licensed under GPL+exception, this is not a problem when using gij. --

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Stefan Gybas
Ben Burton wrote: Doesn't a few days seem abnormally short notice for such a major NMU - not a bugfix but an entire new upstream release? Kaffe has RC bugs which are open for 3 months (not counting your bug report about /usr/lib/jni) - all of them either include a patch or are easy to fix. Kaffe

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:43:33PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: Incidentally, several java packages could move from contrib into main if the maintainers could simply take the time to write their own Makefiles instead of relying on the default ant build system which is in contrib, e.g., #163168.

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Daniel Bonniot
But ... the FSF doesn't think that code licensed under a GPL incompatible license can be allowed to run on a GPLd VM (i.e. kaffe). Could you give a link that details this point? Daniel

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the problem, and the reasons you cite are reasons for wanting to NMU in the first place, not for doing a highly irregular new upstream NMU right now. For such a significant change I'd allow Ean ample time to respond (and perhaps this

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Ben Burton
Would it not be better to work on getting the free JVMs to the point where they can run ant? (or if ant can be adjusted to be more friendly to these JVMs) Sure, but that will take much longer and it's a task at which a random java package maintainer would be far less effective. As the jython

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Daniel Bonniot
And thus with a small amount of work I was able to adjust jython to use Makefiles and as a result jython was able to ship with woody, even though ant was not. This put the decision in a new light. Yes, your goal being to get Jython in woody, it made sense to work on that. Now that woody is

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Per Bothner
Stefan Gybas wrote: The availability of the new upstream release was reported almost 2 months ago (with a list of bugs that are fixed by this upstream release) and I've sent Ean another mail about a month ago. How much longer should we wait? Which email address are you using? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-06 Thread Per Bothner
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: A phone call may be worthwhile. Is it a joke?! :-| Why should it be a joke? If you want to contact someone and are having trouble contacting them by email, but you have a phone number for their place of business, then a phone is a very practical tool. -- --Per