Author Archives: man-di

Funny code

Posted on October 4, 2007 by man-di

Today I worked on packaging Saxon 8 for Debian. While looking at some of its code I saw the following: if (System.getProperty(“java.vendor”).equals(“Jeroen Frijters”)) { platform = DotNetPlatform.getInstance(); } Note: Jeroen Frijters is the author of IKVM.

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Icedtea for Debian and Ubuntu

Posted on June 11, 2007 by man-di

I have built a package based on icedtea for Ubuntu and Debian. You can apt-get it from deb http://people.debian.org/~mkoch/java/ ./ Its currently very raw. E.g. it builds with GCJ but has wrong build dependencies for it. And its only buildable … Continue reading →

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Yesterday I was happy about SUN…

Posted on April 11, 2007 by man-di

Yesterday I was happy about SUN, because I saw an announcement that WTK 2.5.1 was released. And it includes a Linux version. The versions 2.3 and 2.5 were Windows only. The only available Linux version was 2.2. It worked nice … Continue reading →

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Maven 2 for Debian

Posted on March 2, 2007 by man-di

I have built a preliminary Debian packages for Maven 2 for people who need it or wanna look into Maven. I did this by using the binary distribution from upstream. You can install it by adding deb http://people.debian.org/~mkoch/maven2/ ./ to … Continue reading →

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Spam protection considered harmful?

Posted on February 28, 2007 by man-di

I wanted to read some blog entry today I got a lot of 403 errors. I thought this is strange that bloggers deny access to their readers. So I wanted to blog about this. So I wanted to access my … Continue reading →

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New Eclipse committer

Posted on February 20, 2007 by man-di

I have been approved as Committer for the <a href=”http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Linux_Distributions_Project”>Eclipse Linux Distributions Project</a>. This project aims to improve <a href=”http://www.eclipse.org”>Eclipse</a> on Linux distrubutions, make it work better on the the system and make development for Linux easier. Main distributions working … Continue reading →

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Experimental GNU classpath snapshots

Posted on June 13, 2006 by man-di

Inspired by a blog post from Anthony Green about gcjwebplugin uploaded for FedoraCore 5 I created an experimental package for GNU classpath based on CVS. It includes the latest fixes for AWT/Swing. This means the new CairoGraphics2D implementation is used … Continue reading →

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SUN JDK in Debian non-free

Posted on May 22, 2006 by man-di

As most people know already SUN JDK is now included in the non-free section of Debian. There where much discussions about the license of the JDK. To me its very questionable in its current state. For sure it would be … Continue reading →

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Fwd: Hacking for beer!

Posted on February 9, 2006 by man-di

As Robert Schuster stats in his blog we are looking for people who can help with porting issues of GCJ and other free runtimes for Java. For example we have problems with GCJ on arm, hppa, mips/el and m68k in … Continue reading →

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https works out of the box with GNU classpath CVS

Posted on February 6, 2006 by man-di

In order to debug/solve Debian bug #341818 I tried to run gcjappletviewer.jar with jamvm 1.4.2-1, classpath 2:0.20-2 and libjessie-java 1.0.1-2. Everything I tried failed. Then I updated my classpath packages to a current CVS snapshot and it worked out of … Continue reading →

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