As the Gentoo Java lead I should probably comment on a couple of recent blog entries by Andrew John Hughes.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/blog.fuseyism.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/18\/gentoo-and-free-java\/<\/p>\n
I have been trying to recruit a maintainer for FOSS Java stack for ages but no-one has stepped up. Unfortunate state of affairs but such is life with volunteer based distributions. I guess the fact that no-one has stepped up somewhat reflects on the needs of our users too. But any way gnu-classpath-0.97 has been stable for a while for x86 and amd64 in contrast to the 0.90 version stated in his blog.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/blog.fuseyism.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/27\/releases-releases\/<\/p>\n
“The Java Gentoo developers seem to be on a strange mission to support only the proprietary Java solutions”<\/p>\n
Well geki ( https:\/\/overlays.gentoo.org\/proj\/java\/log\/java-overlay\/dev-java\/icedtea ) is not a Gentoo developer so I don’t know who you are referring to and him being the maintainer of the GCJ overlay I don’t think he fits the bill either. If someone provided an ebuild for IcedTea that passed our QA standards, it could go in today. Otherwise it will get done after I have finished other stuff on my Gentoo work queue. I just finished adding a couple new virtuals for jaf and jmx. When packages are switched to use the virtuals it will remove the need to have sun-* or gnu-* packages installed for stuff that the JRE provides when using the latest JDKs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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