[gentoo-user] Questions about java SDK ebuilds for linux

[gentoo-user] Questions about java SDK ebuilds for linux

[Wolfgang Liebich]

Hi,
I'm using GENTOO linux as development platform for Java applications.
JAVA 8 is not officially out there, but still I would like to start testing it, and there are "early access" downloads at the oracle website.

Furthermore, the ebuilds for the IBM JDKs seem to be somewhat abandoned - is there an build for the ibm jdk V7 available somewhere? I did not 
find anything (yet)...

Thanks in advance,
Wolfgang Liebich

[gentoo-user] Re: Questions about java SDK ebuilds for linux

[James]

Wolfgang Liebich <wolfgang.liebich <at> siemens-enterprise.com> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> I'm using GENTOO linux as development platform for Java applications.
> JAVA 8 is not officially out there, but still I would like to start 
> testing it, and there are "early access"
> downloads at the oracle website.

Checkout project sunrise and then other overlay sites for early offerings...

> Furthermore, the ebuilds for the IBM JDKs seem to be somewhat abandoned -
is there an build for the ibm jdk V7
> available somewhere? I did not 
> find anything (yet)...

IMHO, JAVA get's a bad rap in the open source world for a variety,
sometimes very good, reasons. What JAVA on gentoo lacks is devoted
afficionado team to keep up with supporting JAVA on Gentoo...


YMMV,
hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about java SDK ebuilds for linux

[Wolfgang Liebich]

Am 2013-08-26 18:40, schrieb James:
> Wolfgang Liebich <wolfgang.liebich <at> siemens-enterprise.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'm using GENTOO linux as development platform for Java applications.
>> JAVA 8 is not officially out there, but still I would like to start
>> testing it, and there are "early access"
>> downloads at the oracle website.
>
> Checkout project sunrise and then other overlay sites for early offerings...

Is there something like a comprehensive guide to the overlays, or a overlay search engine?
I looked around in some of the JAVA overlays, but they look rather dated (or contain only java based
application's ebuilds).

>
>> Furthermore, the ebuilds for the IBM JDKs seem to be somewhat abandoned -
> is there an build for the ibm jdk V7
>> available somewhere? I did not
>> find anything (yet)...
>
> IMHO, JAVA get's a bad rap in the open source world for a variety,
> sometimes very good, reasons. What JAVA on gentoo lacks is devoted
> afficionado team to keep up with supporting JAVA on Gentoo...

There was a JAVA project for gentoo, but it seems quite dead. The wiki pages refer to the transition to JAVA 5,
was...well... some time ago :-)

This is a pity, though, as the java-config mechanism is really very useful.

>
>
> YMMV,
> hth, James
>
>
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about java SDK ebuilds for linux

[Yohan Pereira]

On 27/08/13 at 12:04pm, Wolfgang Liebich wrote:
> Am 2013-08-26 18:40, schrieb James:
> > Wolfgang Liebich <wolfgang.liebich <at> siemens-enterprise.com> writes:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> I'm using GENTOO linux as development platform for Java applications.
> >> JAVA 8 is not officially out there, but still I would like to start
> >> testing it, and there are "early access"
> >> downloads at the oracle website.
> >
> > Checkout project sunrise and then other overlay sites for early offerings...
> 
> Is there something like a comprehensive guide to the overlays, or a overlay search engine?
> I looked around in some of the JAVA overlays, but they look rather dated (or contain only java based
> application's ebuilds).

If you use eix, theres eix-remote which lets you search remote overlays
using eix the same way one would use it to search the local portage tree.
 

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