That's another reason which I don't like Ubuntu about. GCJ is much slower than Sun. And yet, Ubuntu still persists with it..
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 11:15 +0200, Keith Vassallo wrote: > I think part of the reason for the oldish Eclipse is the fact that it > runs on GCJ, not the SUN JVM by default. > > So the developers have some hard time getting everything to work in that > respect. > > However, since now Java is open-source, Ubuntu could be able to inlclude > the SUN jvm by default, which would lead to more updated Java packages. > > K. > > Jean Azzopardi wrote: > > No, Eclipse has been out of date since Gutsy. For perspective, Ubuntu > > still has Eclipse 3.2, which was out in June 30 2006. Eclipse 3.3 came > > in June 29,2007. This June, we can expect Eclipse 3.4. > > > > Gutsy had ample time to implement Eclipse 3.3. They never did. Hardy is > > an LTS version, users will never get Eclipse 3.4 or 3.3 now. > > > > Here's the package page for Eclipse in Edgy : > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/eclipse > > > > and in Hardy : > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/eclipse > > > > Same version, with a few small upgrades. > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 05:28 +0200, Ramon Casha wrote: > > > >> Perhaps that's because this is a LTS version. They tend to be more > >> conservative in such versions, unlike "Edgy" eft for instance.7. > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
