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 1Fw17L-0008Ra-KF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:19:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5TII4cV004785; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:18:04 GMT Received: from banta-im.com (roy-rogers.nfic.com [208.231.230.100]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5TII31i005687 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:18:03 GMT Received: from by banta-im.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14557 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:18:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44A4195A.1040101@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:18:02 -0400 From: Joshua Nichols User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060510) 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 To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Questions about packages References: <200606290312.k5T3CkWq007491@douglas.highley-recommended.com> <44A3DD2E.4050901@gentoo.org> <1151604193.8347.4.camel@tassadar> In-Reply-To: <1151604193.8347.4.camel@tassadar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6f58be70-d213-4029-a47a-8e2f4d4d125f X-Archives-Hash: d8b1b3498cb9791cefc0f392c997fbdf 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 > > 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