El Lunes, 21 de Noviembre de 2005 11:37, Daniel Bornkessel escribió:
SUSE is switching to JPackage spec files at the moment, using as much as possible of their work (and contribute back of course :) ). SPEC files of the 1.4.2 packages are already switched, 1.5 are on the to-do list for today :) The JPackage solution at the moment is to create a 'nosrc' package, which requires to rebuild the package ( http://www.jpackage.org/rebuilding.php ). This is not a very user-friendly way but the only possible solution at the moment (for the OSS version).
I agree. I really don't understand Sun policy about Java distribution. I think Java would be even more used world around with a more permisive license.
For SUSE we currently ship the JDKs with the distribution. For the OSS version we could include 'nosrc' packages along with a how-to on the openSUSE site on how to install these packages.
It seems a good solution.
In the middle term we should try to switch to the open source tool chain gcj/classpath to avoid these problems.
I don't know how is the state of GNU java. I recall I read it already reached a good compatibilty with Sun 1.4 int its latest gcc-4.x , but I'm not a Java expert. Regards, Guillermo -- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv@oxixares.com Ogijares, Granada SPAIN Public GPG KEY http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv/pubgpg.html #################################################### See World Weather Navigator at http://www.ogimet.com ####################################################