Re: [gentoo-java] sun-jdk 1.5

["Wiktor Wandachowicz" <siryes@gmail.com>]

Hmm. During the last week or so, Java handling in Gentoo has
incorporated substantial changes, which are the results of
almost a year long work. One of the most important goals was
to enable Java 1.5 for Gentoo, keeping downward compatibility
with packages that still require Java 1.4 to work (and refuse to
compile under Java 1.5, for example).

This is a work in progress, but it is happening Right Now (TM).
Please read this first to get a better picture:
https://projects.gentooexperimental.org/expj/wiki/
https://projects.gentooexperimental.org/expj/wiki/Old_system_new_system_and_why
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/java-upgrade.xml

Hopefully Java 1.5, Java 1.6, NetBeans 5.* and many other great
packages will be unmasked in the near future, but the whole
system is currently in the testing stage (~arch). It is as such
to eliminate last flaws and bugs, but in overall everything works
quite well. Example: yesterday I emerged tomcat-5.5.17 without
a single problem, only with warnings from older (1.4) packages
using deprecated (!) API. And I remember how problematic it was
to compile such packages with Java 1.5 some months ago, mostly
of XML parsers using "enum" as the variable name (!) in the
source code...

So, masked - yes, but for only testing purposes, with the intention
to unmask ASAP.

I hope this will address your objections.

Wiktor Wandachowicz

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