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 1Fy2YT-0000mX-Oz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:16:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k658FD0R028080; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:15:13 GMT Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.198]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k658FC3a023230 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:15:13 GMT Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id t12so785135wxc for ; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:15:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LWGVWvcFmqt3EkdqRdocUAIwDCNoFvh9IQLGhx3I+KRmjaKWvEEQp99ypZkym8f4fR9Tr6cv9rPxT9WI7RpSkGXpUxEAz/vgbT+gNp9MB33IRJ7mmmfE6oICs+/eK+NQhLlG8UhgrC/Z/G4zCE0bbrkpH7pouuQv8Jl+pAvN8Ug= Received: by 10.70.59.17 with SMTP id h17mr8641788wxa; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.63.16 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 01:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <254054bc0607050115wbbdbbb5v3a57367da82d032@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:15:12 +0200 From: "Wiktor Wandachowicz" To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] sun-jdk 1.5 In-Reply-To: <4e2f58480607042215p634d90t520ac145226aa5a2@mail.gmail.com> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4e2f58480607042215p634d90t520ac145226aa5a2@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: bcba1f8e-50ec-428c-a2fd-2de5c1eef9b1 X-Archives-Hash: acd88bf5ca736e233293733ef5ec756d 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 -- Registered Linux user #390131 (http://counter.li.org) -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list