From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Greg Tassone <greg@tassone.net>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Question about Sun-Jdk 1.4.2.10
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:50:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <438C40A2.1060800@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1133255074.7706.7.camel@localhost>
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Greg Tassone wrote:
>
> FYI: There is nothing "unstable" about JDK 1.5 (or Java 5). It is the
> recommended "production" platform/runtime of choice for many large
> vendors and IT shops, and has been for some time now. It has simply
> been package-masked here at Gentoo because there have been some
> lingering ebuilds that didn't compile cleanly with it. Hopefully it is
> going to be unmasked VERY soon.
>
It also by default produces class files that are not compatible with
earlier versions etc.
You can safely make 1.5 the user vm using java-config -s. But just be
sure you don't ever set it as the system vm.
Regards,
Petteri
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-29 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-29 0:01 [gentoo-java] Question about Sun-Jdk 1.4.2.10 Tomasz Buchert
2005-11-28 23:26 ` Eddy Mulyono
2005-11-29 9:04 ` Greg Tassone
2005-11-29 11:50 ` Petteri Räty [this message]
2005-11-29 21:01 ` Greg Tassone
2005-11-29 15:35 ` Daigo Kobayashi
2005-11-29 22:11 ` Greg Tassone
2005-12-03 0:52 ` Daigo Kobayashi
2005-12-03 2:44 ` Greg Tassone
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2005-11-29 23:57 Peter B. West
2005-11-30 0:31 ` Antony Riley
2005-11-30 1:12 ` Joshua Nichols
2005-11-30 22:39 ` Peter B. West
2005-11-30 23:09 ` Greg Tassone
2005-12-03 8:23 ` Peter B. West
2005-12-03 9:45 ` Petteri Räty
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