Java and Rawhide?

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Thu Sep 30 11:10:00 UTC 2004


Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> If you are willing to help solve this problem (which is an hairy one and
> has been draining several people's efforts for several years) I can only
> invite you to go on the JPackage site (http://www.jpackage.org/), look
> at the packages, the documentation, the list archives and help the
> project.
> 
> Since it *will* be the upstream for future FC/RHEL java subsistems and
> it is an open community project (similar to Fedora, with some twists
> like also targeting Mandrake/Novell and accepting we still need to work
> with sun binaries in some cases) you *can* make a difference.
> 
> The short-term result will be a gcj/proprietary jvm stack released a bit
> after FC3 (I think we're too late for FC3 proper) and before RHEL4.
> sabletron support is not included at this point and is probably material
> for the next jpp released. It involves solving different problems that
> are detailed on the http://java.debian.net/index.php/CommonJavaPackaging
> site (to be fair while Debian is more advanced than JPP on free VM
> problems I feel we are closer to what's needed in production now).
> 
> Note that everyone would love a totally free stack (which was one goal
> of the FC2 java system) but it seems given the low number of people
> willing to work on it now we still need to go through an intermediate
> phase where proprietary and free stacks coexist (with the proprietary
> parts being phased out once the free ones are ready). There is still a
> lot of work to do - even with Mandrake, Suse and Fedora/Redhat users and
> lately RedHat direct involvement the project is not going as fast as
> everyone would wish it to. But it certainly has come a long way from the
> 3-4 person team it was a few years back.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 

I've looked at jpackage.org and have 2 problems:
-to much focus on propietary solutions
-non existant documentation

Regards,

Hans




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