RFC: Signed JAR Packaging Policy

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mardi 13 mars 2007 à 14:01 -0400, Matthew Miller a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:54:56PM -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> > But any random JVM that a user downloads from Sun or IBM directly 
> > wouldn't know about this extra endorsement, right? So any 
> > non-rpm-installed JVMs would still not work?
> 
> They would work fine for whatever they were installed for. They just
> wouldn't work for this. Presuming that "this" can be made to work just fine
> with gcj and/or future-free-java, then it should just stay that way. Am I
> not getting something? 
> 
> I mean, do we consider "the kernel doesn't build with Microsoft C" a
> problem?

The kernel is mature and the main implementation. If fedora-packaged
java apps fail when people try to use them with proprietary jvms that's
a bigger problem. Till gcj is mature, efficient and recognized in the
marketplace being able to mix and replace components (including the jvm)
is a huge plus.

(now on this particular point, I don't see how we can accommodate SUN &
Fedora requirements, and Fedora goals come first)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot