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Hi,

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 04:12, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> Not sure it's a good idea.  Given that the "java-virtual-machine"
> dependency was created to accomodate the properties shared among
> the JVMs and that most of JVMs, in general, is capable of running
> JNI code, running a JNI code is kind of expected from a package
> that provides "java-virtual-machine".
> 
> Additionaly there's no automatic or even semi-automatic way to
> ensure that ikvm won't be used to run some java code using JNI
> libraries.  This is bad as there is plenty of java libs that
> contain some (usually minimal) native part.  The best that can
> be done is to go case-by-case and add " | ikvm" do Depends: of
> these packages that can be effectively run with it.

Note that the new IKVM snapshot (from today) has a new JNI provider
which should be at least good enough to get Eclipse 3 starting up. So it
should now be at least as capable as jamvm, gcj/gij or kaffe with
respect to JNI.

Cheers,

Mark

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