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I apologize for delaying subscribing to this list. I work for Sun, |
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and am part of the jdk-distros.dev.java.net team. |
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Just wanted to say 'hi' here. We have been working with Karl, as he |
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says, to get packaging ready for distributing Java on Gentoo. |
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I noticed one question about e.g. PPC ports. At the moment the DLJ, |
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as Karl said, applies to the Java distributions that Sun currently |
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builds. The DLJ allows an OS distributor, such as Gentoo, to take |
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those bits and repackage them for your operating system that makes |
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sense for you. So, for Gentoo to package them in a way that makes |
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sense for Gentoo. |
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Sun doesn't provide a PPC port, and the J2SE Embedded product isn't |
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part of the DLJ announcement. |
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Given the "it's not a matter of 'when' but 'how'" announcement ... |
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obviously all the decisions around the DLJ are going to change. It's |
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going to take some time for that announcement to make its way into a |
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practical result like a new license etc. |
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For example it's obvious Gentoo prefers to build things from source. |
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The DLJ today doesn't allow for that, but in the future that's very |
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much a likelihood. |
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If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'll do my best to |
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answer them. I'll be hampered a little in answering in that I'm not |
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a Gentoo user myself. But, our approach to this is that you guys are |
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the experts on Gentoo. You need to package the bits in the way that |
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makes the most sense for Gentoo. For my part I intend to become |
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enough of a gentoo user to understand what you're doing. |
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I also recommend you use the jdk-distros.dev.java.net forums for some |
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discussion. There will be some issues that are common among all OS |
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distributions, and we want to share discussion, packaging code, |
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scripts, techniques, etc on that site. That project is using the MIT |
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license to enable the most flexibility in sharing code between projects. |
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- David Herron |
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