Hello everybody, It's been (too) long time since the last release of SableVM that got uploaded to Debian archives. I have not heard about any serious bugs in 1.1.6-6 package, but let's face it: it is OLD! (classpath especially)
The 1.1.8 version of SableVM Free Java Virtual Machine packages hit the official Debian archive today (big thanks go to Jeff Bailey for help) with the desire to reach testing/Sarge next week. The most important changes since 1.1.6-6 include: - Added the necessary support to run both Eclipse 2 and Eclipse 3 (using the xerces and xalan libraries). Instructions are available at http://sablevm.org/wiki/Eclipse . - Added -Xgnuclasspath:/dir/ectory option to java-sablevm wrapper. This allows for running SableVM with an unmodified GNU Classpath out-of-the-box using an override .jar provided daily at http://sablevm.org/download/snapshot/ (requires post-0.12 classpath). - Added handling of Jar/Zip files on boot classpath (we now use libclasspath.jar instead of uncompressed files) - Allowed for multiple elements and prepending/appending to boot class path. - Switched from gnu.classpath.SystemClassLoader to a more standard implementation derived from URLClassLoader (as it should be). - Added new Generational Garbage Collector ("experimental", available on request, by passing --with-gc=gencopy to configure, not yet used in Debian package). - Implemented several missing JNI functions, - Improved error messages related to bootstrap problems. - Fixed way too many other problems to list them here :-) For the full release announcements (includeing wider lists of improvements) of 1.1.7 and 1.1.8 releases see: http://sablevm.org/lists/sablevm-announce/2004-November/000001.html http://sablevm.org/lists/sablevm-announce/2004-December/000002.html IN SUMMARY: Please, *please*, test the new packages of SableVM 1.1.8, report bugs, problems and successes. This version has potential of running serious applications like Eclipse, so it would be expected that other apps, like Jetty, Ant etc. will also work. But it would be very bad if because of some stupid, little ommision these SableVM packages could not run them. Sarge will hopefully finally release, so we cannot count on having too much time for testing and possibly uploading new versions with fixes. Please use [email protected], but also [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ask questions, http://sablevm.org/bugs to report bugs and #sablevm IRC channel on irc.debian.org (freenode) to chat with other users and developers. On our web site at http://sablevm.org and especially in our Wiki pages at http://sablevm.org/wiki you will find a lot of helpful informations about many aspects of using and developing SableVM. Hopefully you'll find them useful! Happy New Year 2005 !!! Grzegorz B. Prokopski PS: Some of the most popular of SableVM Wiki pages: * http://sablevm.org/wiki/Eclipse - HOWTO run Eclipse w/ SableVM * http://sablevm.org/wiki/Getting - HOWTO download/install from source * http://sablevm.org/wiki/Hall_Of_Fame - Quite funny! * http://sablevm.org/wiki/Features - What SableVM offers? * http://sablevm.org/wiki/FAQ - Short but worth seeing * http://sablevm.org/wiki/License_FAQ - Why *Lesser* GPL? -- Grzegorz B. Prokopski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SableVM - Free, LGPL'ed Java VM http://sablevm.org Why SableVM ?!? http://sablevm.org/wiki/Features Debian GNU/Linux - the Free OS http://www.debian.org
