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Jose, thank you for this very useful document! |
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I don't know if comments to this document are desired, but I will do it |
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anyway... |
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On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:20:21 +0100 |
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Jose Luis Rivero <yoswink@g.o> wrote: |
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<snip> |
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> Experimental java on Gentoo/Alpha |
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> After some work trying to fix compaq-java (see bug #84306) we are |
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> nearly sure it is a waste of time trying to make something unsupported |
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> upstream and obsolete (provide jre/jdk-1.3) work. |
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Fully acke'd. I share your opinion. |
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> After some experiences with SableVM, Thomas Cort (tcort) has been |
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> playing with |
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> lastest version of this free alternative to make java work on Alpha. |
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> SableVM seems to work with basic packages so, our plan is to set up an |
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> overlay and start playing with this. |
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Thanks to Thomas for his work. |
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What does overlay mean? virtual/jre and virtual/jdk? That would be very |
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nice. |
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I have installed sablevm a few weeks ago and I'm running tomcat with it. |
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Seems to be working fine here. |
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> More info about Thomas' current work: |
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> - http://mediumbagel.org/java/ |
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> Alpha Arch testers Project |
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I'll have to look into this one... |
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Marc |
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> |
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> Fernando J. Pereda (ferdy) is working these days on setting up our |
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> Arch Testers project which has given very good results on other arch |
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> teams inside Gentoo (mainly amd64). |
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> For more information, you can read the overview on the amd64 arch |
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> testers' project page to see what this project is about: |
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> - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/tests/index.xml |
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> Future change on the Alpha Project Page |
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> We hope to make some changes on our official project page to keep |
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> public info |
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> well structured and a bit more updated than it is now. Also starting |
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> subproject sections with information about arch testers, SELinux and |
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> java would be good. |
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> - (current page) http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/ |
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> Gentoo Alpha Herd |
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> Dec 2005 |
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> [1] |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/status/status-20051207.txt |
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> [2] |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/status/status-20051207.xml |
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