Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

["William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@o-sinc.com>]

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On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:38:22 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 02:31:54 +0700
> "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <gentoo@mva.name> wrote:
> > > If Java can do it, so can others.    
> > 
> > And here I come with my 5¢. And my point here is simple:
> > 
> > No, Java (Team) can't.  
> 
> Ah, you appear to be thinking of the Gentoo Java team as it currently
> exists, rather than the mythical perfect Gentoo Java team that existed
> ten years ago and which will rise again soon, which is what William
> meant.

Wow, someone actually has a clue about the state of Java :)

The Java team then handled the migration from 1.4 to 1.5. If you know
anything about Java code that was NOT trivial. A system was developed
not only to allow that transition but make it so the same would never
need to be repeated in the future. That is even a Java quiz question.

Q2. What was the big deal about Java 1.5? Why did it take so long to
become unmasked?

Q3. Will the new Java system support Java 1.6 when it is released? Java
1.7?

Or what about java 1.8 in tree, or 9 coming...
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Java/Developer_Quiz

Which NO other area of the tree has a 3rd quiz. Not Perl, PHP, Python,
nor Ruby. Since Java is so trivial to package. Why its actively worked
on in Gentoo....

Love to see people maintaining ebuilds for these other languages try on
Java for size.... Put your big boy pants on. Try to package Hadoop. I
am ~3 months into Jenkins from source....

Most go into tree as -bin....

People are funny :)

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William L. Thomson Jr.

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