[fedora-java] Re: postgresl-jdbc incompatible w/ Fedora Core

[David Walluck]

Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher at comcast.net> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, what distributions *don't* include the PostgreSQL
> JDBC drivers?  (I.e. why does the JPackage RPM exist?)

How were distros including these if java didn't really work until 
recently? Were
they really compiled with gcj? (I guess it depends on the distro). Also, I
recall that the names of the jars were strange, such that there was no way to
detect the jar name you needed (say, across distros).

-- 
Sincerely,

David Walluck
<david at zarb.org>

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