From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G16VK-0002r8-Te for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:05:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6DJ4eVf023963; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:04:40 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6DJ4awT010211 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:04:36 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.10] (80-103-128-164.mad1.adsl.uni2.es [80.103.128.164]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2D56448F for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:04:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <44B6998E.9040008@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:05:50 +0200 From: "Jose Luis Rivero (YosWinK)" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050815) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-alpha] The end of compaq java. Current Gentoo/Alpha java situation. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b99e84e9-5b96-446a-b952-938add101aae X-Archives-Hash: 23943fd56324dec35a75f125a05fc938 Dear alpha crew: After the last modification to our Gentoo/Java virtual system (bug #138747) , the completely disappeared upstream support (from years ago), the problems and bugs related to compaq jdk/jre ebuilds (see bugs: #84306, #110611, etc) and the fact of a 1.3 vm is quite obsolete nowadays, the Gentoo/Alpha port have decided to drop the support (hard masking ATM) for compaq-jre,compaq-jdk. This means we currently haven't got a full working java (== virtual/{jre,jdk} provider) for the alpha arch. Not all is lost, since other ways are open to get a valid and working java environment for alpha. Kaffe and Sablevm seem to be the best choices now: - Kaffe: testing tinderbox [1] is running (thanks to tcort). - SableVm: tcort and myself were testing it some time ago and last results seems to be pretty good. Ebuilds are in the tree (just the virtual machine) and in gentooexperimental[2]. If someone wants to hack a bit on this issue, setting up an overlay and start working on it could be the best way and we'll be pleased to know the results. Wkr, -- Jose Luis Rivero [yoswink@gentoo.org] Gentoo/Doc Gentoo/Alpha [1] Tinderbox - http://cs.ubishops.ca/~tcort/builder/ [2] SableVM-sdk http://gentooexperimental.org/svn/java/gentoo-java-experimental/dev-java/sablevm-sdk/ -- gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list