[gentoo-java] gcj, maven, the GPL and ebuild

[Thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com>]

I've been sifting through the archives on these topics and would like a 
status report on java.  stat ;)

The best thing would be for gcj to catch-up to Java 5, but that won't be 
for a while.  There are several threads about ebuilds auto-magically 
fetching a Sun JRE or JDK, displaying a license and then installing.  That 
also would be nice in a more perfect world, but fetching a binary via the 
web browser every now and then isn't the greatest inconvenience in the 
world.

However, even were the Sun JDK easily installed as described above, it'd 
still be masked, as I understand, due to some source files in Gentoo not 
working with Java 5 due to problems with reserved words.

Then there's the philosophical problem with distributing compiled classes 
instead of building a java app from source.

Finally, I was amazed to read that maven is, apparently, windows-centric. 
Very disappointing.

The bottom line appears to be that java for Linux sucked, got better, but 
still sucks and will continue to suck for the foreseeable future.  Yes?


-Thufir

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