[arch-general] "community/jre" and "community/jdk" packages are out of date - PKGBUILD proposal

[Ionuț Bîru]

On 07/25/2010 07:37 PM, Guillaume ALAUX wrote:
> On 25 July 2010 18:17, Ionuț Bîru<ibiru at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>
>> On 07/25/2010 07:14 PM, Peter Lewis wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sunday 25 Jul 2010 at 16:50 Guillaume ALAUX wrote:
>>>
>>>> I also have some suggestions for these packages:
>>>> - rename them from {jre,jdk} to {java6-sun-jre,java6-sun-jdk} or so would
>>>> enable us to use different versions of SUN's JVM (Java5, 6 and 7)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well the open jdk package is called "openjdk6". It would be nice if all
>>> the
>>> similar packages had similar names, to make it obvious that they were
>>> alternatives.
>>>
>>> So if you want to rename them, how about either calling them sunjdk6 and
>>> sunjre6 or else renaming the open ones too to fit into the same scheme,
>>> e.g.
>>> java6-open-jdk? Although this has the down side that it no longer contains
>>> the
>>> phrase "openjdk" which is probably what some/most people search for.
>>>
>>> Just a thought.
>>>
>>> Pete.
>>>
>>
>> i always hatted the debian naming scheme for java so -1 from me. but i'm
>> not against to use upstream name.
>>
>> --
>> Ionuț
>>
>
> Well there are several reasons in this renaming proposal :
>
> 1) to add some more info about the package
> 2) to make the difference between versions of Java. ie if we include the "6"
> in names we could have (in a shorter scheme) jdk6 and jre6, jdk5 and jre5,
> jdk7 and jre7. Because nowadays, upgrading jre from 6 to 7 would un-install
> jre v6. As you all know these different versions of JVM (5 and 6 and
> tomorrow 7) are both used a lot !

well, when this happens be sure that we will do that. add a new jre6 and 
jdk package when version 7 is released
>
>> i always hatted the debian naming scheme for java so -1 from me. but i'm
> not against to use upstream name
> What about splitting the PKGBUILD?

+1

>
>> So if you want to rename them, how about either calling them sunjdk6 and
> sunjre6 or else renaming the open ones too to fit into the same scheme, e.g.
> java6-open-jdk
> I do agree.

the description of jre/jdk are pretty damn straight an if you really 
search for java sun it would find jre/jdk

pacman -Ss java sun

-- 
Ionuț