The reason GCJ was included with Ubuntu is that the SUN JVM was initially closed-source AND the license of the JVM explicitally restricted distros from distributing the package without users having to go to the SUN website.
This has now (AFAIK) changed and we should see steps to this direction. In the mean time, projects like Linux Mint have never given as much consideration to these license issues and even include multimedia codecs etc... Keith Jean Azzopardi wrote: > 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 No, Eclipse has been out of date since Gutsy.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 > _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
