Re: Is third party code included in langtools sources?

On 18/08/2008, Yulia Novozhilova <Yulia.Novozhilova@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>
> > The more obvious question for me is why NetBeans needs a fork of this
> > in the first place.  The Debian OpenJDK team have already gone through
> > the extensive task of verifying this code legally to package OpenJDK
> > 6, which is now in unstable and testing:
> >
> >
> http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=openjdk-6
> >
> > Having another copy in another package seems ludicrous and a
> > duplication of existing work.
> >
> >
>  There are users who want to use NetBeans but don't want to install openjdk.
>  (you can find an example here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netbeans/+bug/258844)
>  They already have sun-java6-jdk installed and expect NetBeans to work on
> it.
>  That is why NetBeans needs a fork of the code included into openjdk.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Yulia
>
>
>
>
>

It doesn't explain why a fork is needed.  It just says that NetBeans
has to be able to work against either the langtools from OpenJDK or
the proprietary Sun JDK.  As I read it, a fork solution is suggesting
a third alternative, namely to include another different copy of the
langtools for NetBeans.

In short, what is the reason NetBeans can't just work against the
tools.zip in either JDK?
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