Re: [GNU Crypto] Debian package mostly done and couple of comments

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 02:27, Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:25 am, Morgon Kanter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Mostly finished with the Debian packaging for GNU Crypto. It builds
> > fine with the latest CVS.
> 
> good to hear.

Yeah! It would be nice to have gnu-crypto as standard debian package.
gnu-crypto can also be used as normal jce provider and has a lot more
(and often faster) algorithms available then standard gcj has.

I have added the following to my own /usr/lib/security/libgcj.security:
security.provider.1=gnu.crypto.jce.GnuCrypto
Which makes programs that use lots of SHA1 digest operations for example
a lot faster.

> >... However, before I can finish, I need to
> > know the following:
> >
> > Is it only on Debian systems that the jar files are installed in
> > /usr/share/java? GNU Crypto is installing them directly in
> > /usr/share.
> 
> not being a debian user myself, i couldnt answer this question.  may be 
> Mark can?

Sorry my knowledge about this subject is limited to being a debian user
and liking the fact that jar files can always be found in
/usr/share/java which is convenient.
This is also the place where libgcj gets installed by default.
(Actually ${prefix}/share/java)

> > Where's the javadoc documentation? I thought I heard something about
> > javadoc documentation, but it's nowhere to be found.
> 
> the javadoc html pages are generated by the Javadoc tool from the ANT 
> build.xml file.  this will continue until gjdoc, or similar free tool 
> is able to do the same job as the javadoc.  for the moment, built-in 
> support for the info files (and generation of a PDF version of the 
> manual) is there, thanks to Casey's work.
> 
> i have to admit, i'm not closely following the advancement of gjdoc, so 
> if anybody has tried it lately, i would appreciate it if they can 
> provide some feedback.

It seems to work nicely for generating the GNU Classpath documentation.
See http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/docs/api/
But you probably want a recent version (the version packaged for Debian
is really old) which comes with LibxmlJ (a wrapper around the very fast
Libxml2 and Libxslt libraries). See for the latest release announcement:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/cp-tools-discuss/2003-03/msg00007.html

Cheers,

Mark