Am Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:29:11 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> As some people have noticed, I put a lot of effort in getting a free > java runtime and SDK on archlinux, using GNU java, Eclipse-ecj and > some other free tools, wrapped in java-gcj-compat. > > The downside of this whole project is that it's stuck at java 5.0, the > runtime isn't certified (the eclipse compiler is) and there's no more > effort put into this project by redhat. > > Since a while, there's an alternative to java-gcj-compat, called > icedtea. This project is based on openjdk, with the difference that > missing pieces of openjdk are filled in with parts from GNU classpath. > One example is the webbrowser plugin, that has been missing from > x86_64 since java's existence for this platform. The icedtea6 java > environment passes sun's testsuite, making it a full blown GPL'ed > java environment that is compatible with Sun's java. As it's > developed by redhat, it also compiles fine with GCC 4.3, which we > can't say about openjdk. > > I would propose to package icedtea/openjdk for archlinux and make it > the prefered java environment. Packaging this java environment > requires a java compiler, our current free java platform is able to > build icedtea/openjdk from source. > This means that only java tools and packages required to build > icedtea/openjdk will get built with gcj/ecj/java-gcj-compat, others > will get built with icedtea/openjdk. > Making this switch means no official support for java-gcj-compat > anymore. If something continues working with java-gcj-compat, it's > nice, but if it doesn't, we don't consider it a bug. > > Please let me know what your thoughts are about this change. > +1 from me. Most work seems to done already in the AUR packages. But then we should also drop providing SUN's jre/jdk in extra. Let's support only free software. Let's put SUN stuff back to AUR. That also solves probable license issues. -AndyRTR
