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From: Wolfgang Liebich <wolfgang.liebich@siemens-enterprise.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about java SDK ebuilds for linux
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:04:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <521C79B2.3050400@siemens-enterprise.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20130826T183615-899@post.gmane.org>

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
>
>
>
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-27 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-26  9:03 [gentoo-user] Questions about java SDK ebuilds for linux Wolfgang Liebich
2013-08-26 16:40 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2013-08-27 10:04   ` Wolfgang Liebich [this message]
2013-08-27 12:53     ` Yohan Pereira

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