From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JD0FX-0003kJ-14 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:27:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2FEEE0CE6; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.obsidian-studios.com (mail.obsidian-studios.com [72.17.152.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E05E0CE6 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 24571 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2008 16:27:16 -0000 Received: from mail.obsidian-studios.com (HELO ?192.168.1.211?) (192.168.0.51) by mail.obsidian-studios.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2008 16:27:16 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.211 ([192.168.1.211] helo=[192.168.1.211]) by assp.obsidian-studios.com; 10 Jan 2008 11:27:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Projects and subproject status From: "William L. Thomson Jr." To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <47829A4A.5000905@gentoo.org> <4784B9E7.8000304@gentoo.org> <478520B7.2050506@gentoo.org> <47853193.5040603@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-E7Q0HZJ5qb88FvKsA3PL" Organization: Gentoo Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:27:08 -0500 Message-Id: <1199982428.7570.18.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 X-Archives-Salt: 6b226756-fae8-48b9-a555-004bd1b9b8c1 X-Archives-Hash: 96d19661acef3d0733a7f26556500bff --=-E7Q0HZJ5qb88FvKsA3PL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 14:06 +0000, Duncan wrote:=20 > Petteri R=C3=A4ty posted 47853193.5040603@gentoo.= org, > excerpted below, on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:41:55 +0200: >=20 > > Luca Barbato kirjoitti: > >> Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > >>> [Java] > >>=20 > >> any plan/idea about icedtea? as a ppc user I'd love[] > >>=20 > > Well having it open source doesn't mean automatically ppc support but > > there are people working on it. >=20 > As a (non-ppc, amd64 FWIW) libreware user, I too am happy to see=20 > someone's working on icedtea. I'd love to have a real/working Java as a=20 > viable option once again. Not demanding as I'm very aware I'm not doing=20 > the work, just wondering, and appreciating that it's even possible, now,=20 > and all the work people both upstream and Gentoo are putting into it. >=20 > ETA? At least order of magnitude (weeks, months, years, hopefully not=20 > decades! =3D8^)? I'm not afraid of overlays. No clue on ETA. I will take a peek/poke at it. I need to double check, but pretty sure icedtea might still need sun-jdk to build. Even if that is not the case, things like the plugin and other non-open aspects aren't available yet in icedtea. So there is still much left to be desired. I am pretty sure due to the need either for build or run of sun-jdk we aren't really motivated to do anything special with icedtea at this time. Really doesn't allow us to do anything more than we can now with openjdk. Sure some more free tools are used to build instead of entirely using sun-jdk. But it's not complete, so leaves stuff to be desired. http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea/file/6cb15624ed1d/README http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=3D16 Not to burst your bubble or pee in your corn flakes. But I will see what I can do to slowly start making an effort to package it. Love to see a contributor or someone step up there. As over all maintenance of openjdk is ALLOT atm due to weekly releases :( --=20 William L. Thomson Jr. Gentoo/Java --=-E7Q0HZJ5qb88FvKsA3PL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkeGR1wACgkQPrChP8zZLyZLhgCghHn4glLT7CXSxkCdPi8esWxB BogAniS9DhG1tS2NiwwkFJWtnPyvfZHk =8jkX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-E7Q0HZJ5qb88FvKsA3PL-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list