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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:
> I've done a first round through the grimoire and a lot of spells were 
> skipped due to brokenness, so I expect a re-run will find even more 
> issues.  Through the weekend I will triage the rest of the bugs filed, 
> but I have one question to ask of everybody:
> 
> Should the spells that depend on z-rejected spells be moved until they 
> can have that restriction lifted?
> 
> There are spells that depend on a z-rejected spell that aren't rejected 
> because they could conceivably be run on code that wasn't rejected if we 
> had a spell for it and got it to work with it.  I'm talking mostly about 
> anything we have that's java-based.  I'm inclined just to say that java 
> should be its own grimoire (sequestered) until we can get the spells to 
> actually build/run in gcj or some other java compiler/runtime.  Thus 
> they're provisionally rejected, in a way since they can't be built with 
> our system without a rejected spell.

While that sounds nice for organization I think it just makes more work
than is needed (a new grimoire, removing from devel -> stable, etc.).
The packages themselves are free, as you mention.

The only benefit I'd see from putting these 'questionable' packages in
another grimoire (which I'd say just put in z-rejected for now) is that
it might encourage people to try and get them to work with the free
alternatives (e.g. kaffe, gcj).

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Shock Physics @ WSU
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