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Hi Karl, |
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Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote: |
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> Hi gang, |
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> as you may know, we're working on the migration to Java 1.5, much thanks |
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> to all the hard work done by Thomas Mathijs (of axxo-overlay fame). |
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> The migration brings about something of a spring cleaning, too. We'd |
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> like to remove packages that are not in use and cause more harm than good. |
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> One candidate for removal are the 1.3 JDKs on x86. We are aware that 1.3 |
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> JDKs may still be the latest and greatest on some platforms, they seem |
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> very much out of vogue on x86. |
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> Does anybody still need/use the 1.3 JDK on x86? |
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Yes. For some libs it is still important to be 1.3 compatible and Gentoo |
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offers a nice way to have multiple jdk versions installed - including 1.3.x |
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versions, so I can switch as necessary to take care of compatibility issues. |
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- Jörg |
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