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 1FgnRY-0005SN-Jh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 18:41:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4IIaGtZ027239; Thu, 18 May 2006 18:36:16 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4IIaDeL016749 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 18:36:14 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CBB46448B for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 18:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00937-13 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 18:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 394BE64467 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 18:36:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25450 invoked from network); 18 May 2006 18:36:05 -0000 Received: from rhodium.priorityevents.net (HELO [10.87.9.51]) (robogeek@[216.111.165.9]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 May 2006 18:36:05 -0000 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 (Apple Message framework v749.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Herron Subject: [gentoo-java] Hello gentoo-java Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:35:36 -0700 To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.841 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.383, BAYES_00=-2.599, SUB_HELLO=2.141] X-Spam-Score: -0.841 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: ac25afd3-cae8-416a-bd63-33db3c0934ea X-Archives-Hash: 1bb846621c9a09e075881a563549204b 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 -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list