[arch-general] "community/jre" and "community/jdk" packages are out of date - PKGBUILD proposal

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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.

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