Java status?
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Fri Jul 4 13:03:28 UTC 2008
Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> 2008/7/4 Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>:
>
> [skipped]
>
>>> I'm interested because some packages still built with GCJ, and I'm
>>> curious why they still not rebuild with (for example) OpenJDK?
>
>> Why not?
>
> Is it the only reason?
They already build perfectly well with gcj, so I can't see anything
to be gained by changing them.
>>> Another question - what's the future of GCJ/ECJ in Fedora? Will they
>>> be superseded by OpenJDK?
>
>> It's a big job to answer all that. Ultimately it will be limited
>> by the number of people available to do the work, and we're trying
>> to plan all that. Be aware that full OpenJDK support is only
>> available on a few platforms, so there are gaps to fill.
>
> What gaps?
Most non-x86 platforms. We have an interpreter-only port of OpenJDK for
other platforms, which works well but is rather slow.
Andrew.
More information about the fedora-devel-list
mailing list