Gregory Shimansky wrote:
> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
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>> Gregory Shimansky wrote:
>>> Alexey Petrenko wrote:
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>>>> Don't you need to specify exact version of library you depend on?
>>>
>>> It is up to distributions to care about the exact version of
>>> libraries that they provide. When they build and test harmony with
>>> these libraries the exact version will be recorded in the package.
>>
>> Hang on - what do you mean "when they build and test harmony?" I'm
>> sure that some distros may do that - get the TCK license from Sun and
>> test - I'm not convinced it will be many. It will be up to us, at
>> least at first, to start doing certified builds for a matrix of
>> precise versions and distros. "harmony for linux" isn't going to cut
>> the mustard.
>
> I don't think distros will do any TCK testing. They will assume that any
> build passes TCK as long as we claim that we did pass it.
They can't call it Java then, nor claim it conformant. Only a binary can
be tested conformant. The source has no "conformance-ness"
> It is quite
> different, Java conformance (in the sense of passing TCK) or just
> another Linux Java implementation along with kaffe and gcj with
> classpath. Do kaffe and gcj have TCK certification on all distributions,
> is it really needed?
If you want to call it Java, yes.
>
> Under testing I meant that distributions will test compatibility between
> Harmony and the media libraries versions which are used in distribution
> version.
I can't imagine to what avail if they want Java.
geir
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