Demo status, and a couple of jpkg enhancement requests

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Sounds exciting!

-- Jon


On May 27, 2009, at 10:40 PM, Mark Reinhold wrote:

> Yes, it's the week before JavaOne.  Utter insanity.
>
> I've somehow managed to hack up a reasonably-credible demo.  Thanks
> to Jonathan for the recent compiler changes, and to Dalibor for the
> packaging tool.
>
> I need to clean up my patch queue a bit, but I'll try to push my
> current changes into the forest tomorrow.  I'll also post the demo
> script, for the curious.
>
> Dalibor -- Any chance of getting these two jpkg enhancements done
> in the next day or so?
>
>  - Compress class files using pack200 rather than simple gzip.
>    This would make for a huge improvement in our package sizes.
>    It probably makes sense to leave packaged classes in the JAR
>    format.  If so, I can easily change the runtime code to look
>    for JAR files in addition to classes/ directories.  You can
>    assume that $JAVA_HOME/bin contains the unpack200 binary.
>
>    (When packing I wouldn't bother to compress the output file;
>     dpkg-deb will compress it with gzip anyway.)
>
>  - Define additional command-line options for specifying some
>    of the more common package attributes such as maintainer,
>    description, section, installed-size, and maybe home page.
>    Right now the JDK packages show up in Synaptic in a fairly
>    boring way, without the information people expect.
>
> Fixes for the launcher-script issues would be welcome too: Use the
> jmod in the installed $JAVA_HOME/bin, and exec rather than fork the
> java binary.  (I have a tiny patch to fix jpkg's translation of
> version strings, which I'll include in my next push.)
>
> - Mark