Re: [Sablevm-developer] Re: while building ant... and some other stuff

[Etienne M. G. <eti...@uq...>]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 09:04:49PM +0200, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
> Of course - why not ;-)
> You need to know I am good at it
> http://people.debian.org/~igenibel/packages.php?gpg_key=A4B8FDE9
> show that I managed to divide FireBird (InterBase derived&compat) into
> 13 pieces! ;-)

*g*

> OK, I hope ant maintainer will join our conversation/efforts.
> In case you didn't know why I started with ant - it is because _a lot_
> of DFSG-free packages depend on it, and ant is still in contrib.
> I belive this one with a few other packages from Apache (xml and more
> general stuff) - once moved from contrib to main - can allow us to
> move _a lot_ of Java programs to main.
> Yes - that's another reason I am doing all of this...

I see the need...  As long as you can be a little patient for the next
couple of weeks, so that I terminate my Thesis, I will have more time
to help filling the holes.
 
> It may be just oversight.

Apparently not.  Look at the last messages of
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/classpath/2002-August/thread.html

They might be moved to the gjdoc project.  Aren't we annoying to every
other programmer out there, by checking licenses...  Poor them, having
to deal with us.  But, it's for The Greater Good (TM). ;-)

> BTW: do you know if classpathx project(s) are already packaged for
> Debian?

I think not...  You'll accumulate lots of Debian Karma, maintaining
such numerous packages!  (Yep. I even noticed about the existence such
things;-)

> I thought about other thing too. Machines of all 11 architectures of
> Debian are available to debian developers. To port sablevm to new
> architectures you could become debian developer. Just a thought.

Let me finish my thesis, and I might well join!

Thanks,

Etienne

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