"Conway S. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:14:15 -0600:
> Last I heard, Gentoo/FBSD was stalled, due to licensing terms. But it > was some time ago, has that changed? I don't believe it's stalled now. Among other things, Roy is designing Baselayout-2 to be friendlier to Gentoo/FBSD. Baselayout-2 is a pretty recent development, and definitely still masked as it's still in serious development. (FWIW, I've been running 1.13.0_alphaXX for some time, since it was hard masked tho it seems to be ~arch now, but I've not tried 2.0 yet, at all.) The worst recent blow, AFAIK, was when Flameeyes quit, as that was his baby (well, one of them, he was incredibly productive all over the place). Fortunately, he's back, but taking it a bit slower this time, mainly focusing on GFBSD. BTW, his blog at http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ has some very interesting entries re the thread topic, and this subthread, and gcc as well. First, his latest entry explains a bit about coming back (the links include date and title): http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/05/27/shedding-a-light-on-my-return Second, back on the second page, he discusses his work on OpenJDK. He's mainly interested in getting it to work for GFBSD since the FBSD version is old and vulnerable, but he's getting it working on Gentoo Linux first. Apparently, it DOES compile on amd64, but may require a bit of tweaking due to path lengths. Anyway, worth reading for anyone following the GPLv2ing of Java, particularly as it applies to Gentoo and specifically, Gentoo/amd64. Three entries: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/05/09/openjdk-and-gentoo-freebsd http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/05/10/my-fiddling-with-openjdk http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/05/15/openjdk-the-vulnerabilities-and-you Finally, as one who has unmasked gcc-4.2.0 locally, and recompiled my entire system (that'll work with it, I've about a half-dozen packages that won't), this entry on gcc 4.3 and the problems it's going to cause is interesting: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/05/11/gcc-4-3-it-will-be-a-bloodshed Hmm... the g2planet RSS feed doesn't seem to be carrying flameeyes blog again yet. Having just read a bunch of it, and found all that interesting stuff, I'm going to have to rss-feed it directly... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
