On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 06:52, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > If we use the debian packages, can these facilities be added in later? > Or is it too late because they have been compiled out of the code?
Jason, I'm afraid not. To enable support for these features we have to build the packages using a JDK, but there are no suitable JDKs in main and the resulting packages would not be allowed into Debian main. The package source itself still has an 'enable-java' mode, although it wasn't working in 1.1.0 due to the new system libdb patches. I think Rene might have fixed some of that already, but we don't really have time to work on this before the Sarge release, because there are many other areas that need work. If anyone wants to have a go at getting it working, I'd be happy to incorporate any fixes into the packaging. To build with Java, you need to pass 'jdkhome=/path/to/your/jdk' in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Chris
