Seen in the debian-openoffice archive your post of Jul 19, 2004 :
> Hi folks,
> For those who are brave - or desperate - enough to want to try out OOo
> with Java support enabled, here's a package that you can install:
>
>
http://people.debian.org/~halls/openoffice/test/openoffice.org-java_1.1.2-2+java_i386.deb
>
> Download the package and install alongside your exisiting OOo package
> using
> 'dpkg -i openoffice.org-java_1.1.2-2+java_i386.deb'.
Well, I'm not *that* brave, but I'm getting desperate enough to give it
a try (it seems that some databases can be realistically used only
through JDBC. Furthermore, learning openoffice.org API with Sun's
tutorials seem to require to walk through Java. (Surprise...)). I looked
at the place mentioned in your post and didn't see anything new. Do you
plan to create newer .debs in sync with sid's package ?
For a longer-term view : until free JVMs and J2SDKs do big progress,
Java availability cannot be a standard feature of a set of
openoffice.org packages in main. So I see two workarounds :
1) (poor) have a set of Java-enabled openoffice.org-* packages in
non-free (or in contrib, depending of the DFSG interpretation of your
friendly holier-than-thou flamer of the day ...).
2) (better but much harder) : have the Java-free version of
openoffice.org *able* to use java extensions, but not requiring it.
Do you have any plans about this problem ?
Sincerely,
Emmanuel Charpentier
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