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I've been sifting through the archives on these topics and would like a |
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status report on java. stat ;) |
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The best thing would be for gcj to catch-up to Java 5, but that won't be |
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for a while. There are several threads about ebuilds auto-magically |
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fetching a Sun JRE or JDK, displaying a license and then installing. That |
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also would be nice in a more perfect world, but fetching a binary via the |
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web browser every now and then isn't the greatest inconvenience in the |
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world. |
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However, even were the Sun JDK easily installed as described above, it'd |
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still be masked, as I understand, due to some source files in Gentoo not |
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working with Java 5 due to problems with reserved words. |
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Then there's the philosophical problem with distributing compiled classes |
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instead of building a java app from source. |
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Finally, I was amazed to read that maven is, apparently, windows-centric. |
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Very disappointing. |
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The bottom line appears to be that java for Linux sucked, got better, but |
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still sucks and will continue to suck for the foreseeable future. Yes? |
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-Thufir |
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