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On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:28:37AM +0100, Davide Cittaro wrote: |
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> Hi there, since Java has been released now with a open license, do |
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> you think it will be possible to have a recent (and decent) java VM |
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> on our gentoo alphas? |
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The Alpha team is fairly interested in getting a working Java |
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implementation on Alpha. As we're a fairly small team at least two |
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things have to happen before considering this however: |
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1. All the source needs to be released and missing proprietary parts |
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have to be reimplemented by the open source community. |
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2. All the easy bugs have to fixed before we can spend (much) time on |
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Java on kaffe. This point is basically about the very limited free time |
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the Alpha team have to spend on projects such as this. |
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Seeing how fast things progress in kaffe and classpath I'm sure we'll |
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get there sooner than later in Sun manages to release all the source in |
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the timeframe promised. |
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Regards, |
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Bryan Østergaard |
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PS. There might be further issues of course but the two issues above are |
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the immediate ones I'm seeing. |
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