Re: Where's my Derby?

From:

Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:15:13 +0100

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On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 04-04-2010 20:02, Tom Anderson wrote:

See my response to Mark. There's still no sign of Derby on my machine.
My reason was apparently valid.

According to this rather antique blog post:

http://blogs.sun.com/FrancoisOrsini/entry/ubuntu_users_gets_java_db

Ubuntu decided to make Derby a separate package. Digging around in my
package info, it seems that this is still the case, and i don't have it
installed. And that i can't install it through the package manager,
because of some funky Ubunutu version conflict lameness. Oh joy.

That is pretty nasty of them. People that have installed Java expect
to have a complete Java.

I don't think SUN should have bundled Derby, but they did and
tampering with the Java distribution is just bad.

Strongly agreed. I want to use Java, not DebianJava. I don't want to have
to go and start a thread on a newsgroup to double-check the fact that
something that should work doesn't. Now i've wasted you guys' time as well
as my own!

It may even be a violation of the license and/or trademark.

I doubt that - neither Debian nor Ubuntu are that stupid.

tom

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