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 1Fw1O3-00031D-K0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:37:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5TIaDto016838; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:36:13 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 k5TIaCno024189 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:36:13 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFB1642B3 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:36:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16963-15 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:36:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from douglas.highley-recommended.com (unknown [216.231.62.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F94A6414F for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:36:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from douglas.highley-recommended.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by douglas.highley-recommended.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5TIa9GD025143 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:36:09 -0700 Received: (from dhighley@localhost) by douglas.highley-recommended.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k5TIa9Ex025141 for gentoo-java@gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:36:09 -0700 From: David Highley Message-Id: <200606291836.k5TIa9Ex025141@douglas.highley-recommended.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Questions about packages To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:36:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44A4195A.1040101@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.464 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.135] X-Spam-Score: -2.464 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: b6c84c14-ce9e-4a57-bc6b-ab5609ef2d70 X-Archives-Hash: ff43006f3e8b879774d3c99a48d5ffda "Joshua Nichols wrote:" > > Greg Tassone wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 10:01 -0400, Joshua Nichols wrote: > > > >> David Highley wrote: > >> > > ... > > > >> But what you're asking about here... I think it's more something you'd > >> have to talk to Sun about. > >> > >> I'm not sure if you're aware, but IBM does have a JDK available on the > >> PPC. Would that suffice? > >> > > > > Just FYI: Sun *does* have a binary release for an embedded PPC runtime. > > I left the details out because I interpreted David's remarks as "why > > aren't we providing a package for it in Portage" question. > > > > In case you're interested in the details you can find them here: > > http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/embedded/index.jsp > > > > And here (see the news item for April, 2006): > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/embedded/survey.html?download=ppc Thanks for all the responses. We had not worked with the gentoo distribution so we were just trying to understand what the packaging was doing. Hopefully we can get our architecture guys to change directions to a more main line approach. I did finally locate the IBM down load area. For a company that make such a big deal about their web products they have horrible web site structure. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux/download.html Thanks again for the information. > > > > Greg > > > > > Thanks for clearing that Greg. > > So... for a real reason now :) There aren't any members of the Java team > with access to PPC hardware. > > - Josh > -- > gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Regards, David Highley Highley Recommended, Inc. Phone: (206) 669-0081 Federal Way, WA 98023-7732 WEB: http://www.highley-recommended.com -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list