More Java guidelines questions

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Apr 16 07:10:51 UTC 2008


Le Mer 16 avril 2008 01:12, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 18:10 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Do you have an estimate for the man-hours of modifications it took
>> to
>> make that possible to help others decide on the feasibility of using
>> gcj
>>   instead of Sun Java in general?
>
> I don't, but that's a moot point because Fedora couldn't ship Sun
> Java.
> I'd like to think that a lot of the work that went into GCJ aided in
> the
> push to get Sun to open up Java so that we /could/ ship it.

Sure, that was a good argument for pushing gcj in the past.
The question is should we focus on gcj or openjdk/icedtea now.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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