On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:32:08PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote: > Hi again, > > I'm wondering if there is any awareness in the Debian community of the jEdit > editor? I writing a plugin for jEdit that enables people, some of whom are > non-technical, to create and maintain websites and would like to get a sense > of how wide-spread jEdit usage/awareness is among Debian users. (The app is > not dependent on jEdit and runs from the command line in any Java 1.4+ > environment.) > You can start by filing an ITP (if you intend to package and maintain JEdit yourself) or an RFP (if you would like to request the package and hope some Debian developer has enough interest to do it for you).
> Since jEdit is a Java app, I'd also like to gather some information about the > acceptance/usage of Java 1.5 (aka 5.0) within the Debian community since that > is the OS that I'm using and would like to recommend. I'd love to require my > users to have Java 5 installed but only if there is some positive acceptance > of Java 5 generally. > In general, apps that require a non-free JVM to run are discouraged. Some do exist, but it is better if your app or plugin can make use of an existing free Java implementation (Kaffe, SableVM, etc). If not, your program must go into contrib. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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