[gentoo-java] Hello gentoo-java

[David Herron <David.Herron@Sun.COM>]

I apologize for delaying subscribing to this list.  I work for Sun,  
and am part of the jdk-distros.dev.java.net team.

Just wanted to say 'hi' here.  We have been working with Karl, as he  
says, to get packaging ready for distributing Java on Gentoo.

I noticed one question about e.g. PPC ports.  At the moment the DLJ,  
as Karl said, applies to the Java distributions that Sun currently  
builds.  The DLJ allows an OS distributor, such as Gentoo, to take  
those bits and repackage them for your operating system that makes  
sense for you.  So, for Gentoo to package them in a way that makes  
sense for Gentoo.

Sun doesn't provide a PPC port, and the J2SE Embedded product isn't  
part of the DLJ announcement.

Given the "it's not a matter of 'when' but 'how'" announcement ...  
obviously all the decisions around the DLJ are going to change.  It's  
going to take some time for that announcement to make its way into a  
practical result like a new license etc.

For example it's obvious Gentoo prefers to build things from source.   
The DLJ today doesn't allow for that, but in the future that's very  
much a likelihood.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.  I'll do my best to  
answer them.  I'll be hampered a little in answering in that I'm not  
a Gentoo user myself.  But, our approach to this is that you guys are  
the experts on Gentoo.  You need to package the bits in the way that  
makes the most sense for Gentoo.   For my part I intend to become  
enough of a gentoo user to understand what you're doing.

I also recommend you use the jdk-distros.dev.java.net forums for some  
discussion.  There will be some issues that are common among all OS  
distributions, and we want to share discussion, packaging code,  
scripts, techniques, etc on that site.  That project is using the MIT  
license to enable the most flexibility in sharing code between projects.

- David Herron

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