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[Mads Laursen <dossen AT daimi.au.dk>]

On 11/11/02 15.57, Dufflebunk wrote:
> Will IBM's stuff let java work again in mozilla?
> You could ask the use where the source is localy and move it to
> /var/spool/sorcery in the PREPARE script.
> 
> On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 15:49, Casey Harkins wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Sergey A Lipnevich wrote:
> <snip>
> > Back on topic, IBM's jdk/jre require registration, so it may be a little
> > tricky to create a spell. I'm not too thrilled about having to download it
> > and place it in /var/spool/sorcery directly. I'll have to give it some
> > thought. Anyone have any ideas?
> > 
> > Some other things that would be nice: jre only spells and coexisting java
> > environments (for easy testing of java applications using a variety of
> > jvms).
> > 
I'm just putting this idea out here, I don't think I'd be up to
implementing it (at least not right now):

Could a script be written, that acts like a simple custom browser, and
then called from PREPARE, or something?

Something like
  
  - Show the license stuff.
  - Ask for a login/new login.
  - Login (create account if new).
  - Download stuff.

Would something like this be worth it? Could it be used for other
stuff (sun java source)? Would it be horribly wrong, void the GPL or
bring about the end of mankind? ;-)

Just food (or maybe snack?) for thought.

/dossen