contrib status of libpgjava

[Arnaud Vandyck]

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Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:29:29 +0100, 
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote: 

> [Apparently, mail to libpgjava@packages.qa.debian.org does not get 
> through, so I'm writing again.]
>
> I have been working with the authors of the PostgreSQL JDBC driver 
> (libpgjava) to enable it to work with free software.  As of right now, 
> the development version, which will become 8.0.something, compiles and 
> runs with jikes and sablevm.  You get the JDBC 3 variant, but without 
> SSL support (because classpath doesn't support the Java SSL API yet).
>
> Considering that JDBC 3 without SSL is probably just right for most 
> users, I think when PostgreSQL 8.0 is released, it would be nice to 
> split the package into a free and non-free part and move the free part 
> into main.  I have added some information to http://java.debian.net/ 
> about this.
>
> What do you think?  I'd also be willing to help out to make this happen.

/me jumpin' around

Very good and thanks for your comment on MovingJavaToMain.

It should be easy to test to build the package with kaffe or another
freeVM. The package is using cdbs and very well done!

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