beecrypt-java (Was: rawhide report: 20050207 changes)

[Jeff Johnson]

Bob Deblier wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 11:45 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
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>>Anthony Green wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 05:58 -0500, Build System wrote:
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>>>>beecrypt-4.1.2-1
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>>>>* Sat Feb 05 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj at jbj.org> 4.1.2-1
>>>>- upgrade to 4.1.2
>>>>- put java components in sub-package.
>>>>- check that /usr/lib64 is not used on alpha (#146583).
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>>>You called this sub-package beecrypt-java.  I suggest renaming this to
>>>something like beecrypt-java-jni.  It only contains the JNI C side of
>>>the beecrypt java library.  The library of java code for beecrypt is
>>>widely known as "beecrypt-java" (google for beecrypt-java-2.0.0.zip).
>>>beecrypt-java hasn't been packaged yet, but it will surely require this
>>>beecrypt-java-jni.
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>>Heh, "This space reserved." is perhaps not the right approach.
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>>Hint: A ptr to what is likely to be the best upstream source for 
>>beecrypt-java-2.0.0.zip
>>in bugzilla will fix "hasn't been packaged yet" faster than anything.
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>>Otherwise you'll have to wait until I talk to Bob Deblier in 2 weeks or 
>>so ...
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>>73 de Jeff
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>Jeff, Anthony,
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>Please ignore the old beecrypt-java-2.0.0 for now. A new version (mainly
>a provider offering access to native speed algorithms, requiring the JNI
>interface) is being worked on, and should start appearing in the
>BeeCrypt CVS tree shortly.
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OK. I'll be happy to add next generation beecrypt-java to 
"beecrypt-java" whenever.

>Ideas and thoughts as to which direction that particular package should
>evolve towards are welcome, as I get little feedback from beecrypt-java
>users. Although not officially hosted there yet, any bugs or feature
>requests are always welcome on the BeeCrypt SourceForge page...
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FC might be a place to get more feedback for beecrypt-java.

Anyways, see you at Cafe Subite in 2 weeks ;-)

73 de Jeff