Gentoo Archives: gentoo-java

From: Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o>
To: gentoo-java <gentoo-java@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Anyone using blackdown-jdk as a browser plugin any more?
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:30:51
Message-Id: 461A6A0A.4080702@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-java] Anyone using blackdown-jdk as a browser plugin any more? by "Petteri Räty"
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4 Petteri Räty wrote:
5 > William L. Thomson Jr. kirjoitti:
6 >> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 01:00 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
7 >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161835
8 >>>
9 >>> At least on x86 it shouldn't be a problem to remove nsplugin use flag
10 >>> from blackdown-jdk as sun-jdk-1.5 is stable and isn't fetch restricted
11 >>> any more. But what about amd64 users? Please reply here if you use
12 >>> nsplugin from blackdown-jdk on amd64 and it works for you and if you
13 >>> think we shouldn't remove nsplugin support from blackdown-jdk. Removing
14 >>> nsplugin support from blackdown-jdk would leave the emul-linux-x86-java
15 >>> as the only package to provide nsplugin support.
16 >> blackdown's nsplugin is crash happy in my experience. There are some
17 >> occasions where it's stable, but for most real applets and etc. It just
18 >> crashes the browser. The emul-linux-x86-java one is best IMHO.
19 >>
20 >> Along those lines I think the 1.4 emul-linux-x86-java package needs to
21 >> ship 1.4 x86 sun instead of blackdown.
22 >>
23 >
24 > The license prevents us from redistributing it...
25
26 Do we need redistributing? Is 1.4 emul now distributed on any media?
27 "Ship" doesn't mean "fetch" :)
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