Electricity

A company is working in my 'new' house (the house my wife and I bought, but it's built early in the 20th century). They are completely replacing the electricity. The system that was in the house before was installed 40 years ago or maybe more!

Harmony

So everybody blogged about Apache Harmony project... but me ;-)

Positive:

• one more project to make Java Free Software


• Apache community behind our goal (free java) (Apache community has a very good image at Sun, IBM and a lot of commercial companies


• Apache community will try to get the TCK (many improvements could come from this point)


• work hand in hand with GNU Classpath

Negative:

• ?

PS: for the record, read some explanations of Mark Wielaard and Sven de Marothy.

tomcat5 in Debian progresses

One more stopper packaged: commons-launcher! I did forget this one I don't know why. I started to package it in October 2004! I finished the package and then uploaded it. But when I tried to build tomcat5, it did not find the lib... of course, I made a mistake with symlinks. Thanks to jvw (Jeroen van Wolffelaar) kindly removed the package from the new queue so I could reupload it with a fix. Now the build of tomcat5 goes a little further... near to complete!.. I updated the Alioth's cvs so everybody can try. Infos: http://people.debian.org/~avdyk/tomcat5/

libservlet2.4-java and libcommons-el-java in NEW queue

I've just uploaded libcommons-el-java, libservlet2.4-java has been uploaded some days ago. Two more stoppers to have tomcat5 are now gone! ;-) (of course, both are built with free tools -- kaffe in this case)

Darwin's Nightmare

It's been a long time I haven't been to a cinema. I was glad my best friend Michel asked to see Darwin's Nightmare. I can't find words to describe what I saw, maybe a pointer to a London Film Festival article is better. You'll read a phrase from the director: 'It is so incredible that wherever prime raw material is discovered, systematically the locals die in misery, their sons become soldiers and their daughters are turned into servants and whores.' Hubert Sauper

Little steps about tomcat5 in Debian

I'm still working (slowly?) to have tomcat5 in Debian. There are two stoppers I'd like to work on quickyl: libservlet2.4-java and libcommons-el-java. The first is embedded in the tomcat5 sources and it's a problem because the second relay on servlet2.4 api to build and tomcat5 needs commons-el to build (and servlet2.4)! So I have to separate the tomcat5 source package and extract servlet 2.4 api (jsr154) and jsp 2.0 api (jsr152) to make it a separate package. Once this will be built and uploaded, I'll build libcommons-el-java (with this new servlet api) and I'll investigate the tomcat5 package a little more.

Working in my house

I'm sorry, but don't count on me this week. I'll try to read my mails, sponsor and help if I can but I'll work on my house the most of the time.

About a tomcat5 package in Debian

I start working on tomcat5 in Debian. As we have a growing and wonderful team in Debian-java (Alioth's pkg-java project), I wanna publish what I'm working on. Here is the original tarball I based my work on:
http://people.debian.org/~avdyk/tomcat5/tomcat5_5.0.30.orig.tar.gz
And here are the whole instructions to start hacking on the Debian package:
http://people.debian.org/~avdyk/tomcat5/
Happy Hacking!..

A New House!

My wife and I did signed the official papers this March 24 2005. We have our own house... let's start to work in it!

New kaffe snapshot and Free J... Stuff

I was waiting for a new kaffe snapshot because I couldn't build kaffe cvs head on my powerbook. Now it's ok so I uploaded a new snapshot to unstable. I also try to close some bugs. In particular, the symlink bug. The hard thing is the links are made by the kaffe package and there is a KAFFE-SYSTEM symlink made by the different flavours of kaffe (jthreads, pthreads, pthreads-profile). When the kaffe-system alternative is removed first, then, the other symlink won't be removed. The work around I found was to remove the symlink and then force update-alternatives to go auto (yes, this is bad!). Kurt Roeckx also made some useful suggestions (#291510). I still have three important bugs: two FTBFS to forward upstream (amd64 and arm) and one I can downgrade to normal and merge.
We are also making a lot of progress on Moving Java To Main. Wolfgang, Michael, Jerry and I are moving some importants packages to main. The list of packages moving to main is growing...