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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: seth AT swoolley.homeip.net
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] prometheus done -- plus, should we sequester/reject java spells?
  • Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:47:01 -0700

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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
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Shock Physics @ WSU
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