Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Hello ... and thank you !

[Charles-H. d'A. <cda...@gm...>]

Hi Andrew,

Thank you very much for your answer.

> ...
> So I'm actually developing again, and THAT has been great fun. I'm in
> the same boat as everyone else: lots of works-in-progress which may - or
> may not - ever see the light of day as popular public projects.
> ...

I hope you did not misunderstood my message. The main purpose was to
congratulate and thanks the developers of java-gnome, not to point out
that there are not many popular application using it.
I am totally aware that java-gnome 4.0 is a recent project and I have
no doubt, as mentioned, that in a short term there will be plenty of
great applications java-gnome based.


> java-gnome should build find on Mandriva...

Indeed it does and making a rpm spec file for it was really easy.


> If Mandriva actually have a reliable way to locate and identify an
> installed JVM and tool suite (ie, its location is a matter of Policy)
> feel free to make the changes and submit a branch (java-gnome-hackers
> will be a good list to discuss such things if you wish; patches can be
> sent there or to me direct). I *do* appolgize for the unweildy size
> of ./configure as it stands right now, but it does embody a great deal
> of knowledge and that's what matters for the moment. Oh yeah, and it
> works :)
>
> Until then, really, there's actually no harm in a distro package
> specifying jdk= to ./configure. Sure, it's nice when it's just picked up
> automatically, and that's what we aim for (makes developers' and
> hackers' lives better) but if not, well, that's what that the override
> is there for.

I will investigate and contact Mandriva's developers to have more
information about how to locate installed JVM and JDK.
Be sure I will submit a patch for this as soon as I found out more on
this subject.

Cheers,
Chicha.