Am 2013-08-26 18:40, schrieb James:
Wolfgang Liebich <wolfgang.liebich <at> siemens-enterprise.com> writes:
Hi,
I'm using GENTOO linux as development platform for Java applications.
JAVA 8 is not officially out there, but still I would like to start
testing it, and there are "early access"
downloads at the oracle website.
Checkout project sunrise and then other overlay sites for early offerings...
Is there something like a comprehensive guide to the overlays, or a overlay
search engine?
I looked around in some of the JAVA overlays, but they look rather dated (or
contain only java based
application's ebuilds).
Furthermore, the ebuilds for the IBM JDKs seem to be somewhat abandoned -
is there an build for the ibm jdk V7
available somewhere? I did not
find anything (yet)...
IMHO, JAVA get's a bad rap in the open source world for a variety,
sometimes very good, reasons. What JAVA on gentoo lacks is devoted
afficionado team to keep up with supporting JAVA on Gentoo...
There was a JAVA project for gentoo, but it seems quite dead. The wiki pages
refer to the transition to JAVA 5,
was...well... some time ago :-)
This is a pity, though, as the java-config mechanism is really very useful.
YMMV,
hth, James
