| 1 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
| 2 |
Hash: SHA1 |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
Duncan wrote: |
| 5 |
> Joshua Nichols <nichoj@g.o> posted 4495739A.3040603@g.o, |
| 6 |
> excerpted below, on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:39:06 -0500: |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
>> I have written documentation on switching to the new system, from the |
| 9 |
>> user's perspective, over at our wiki [6] |
| 10 |
>> |
| 11 |
>> [6] |
| 12 |
>> https://projects.gentooexperimental.org/expj/wiki/Using_migration-overlay |
| 13 |
> |
| 14 |
> Are there instructions somewhere for keeping to a 100% freedomware |
| 15 |
> solution? I've been wondering about installing Java, but don't consider |
| 16 |
> slaveryware a viable local option, thus the question. (FWIW, in the general |
| 17 |
> case I couldn't install whatever binary legally if I wanted to, since I |
| 18 |
> couldn't agree to the EULA, tho I've not examined the Sun/Blackdown EULAs |
| 19 |
> recently to see if this would apply there, as they still aren't |
| 20 |
> freedomware and are thus still not an option.) |
| 21 |
> |
| 22 |
> If it's not yet possible (or no documentation that will work for a non-Java |
| 23 |
> guy), is there a timetable? No rush or even pressure to do it if you |
| 24 |
> aren't, but thought I'd ask while the topic is hot. I did try the given |
| 25 |
> URL as well as the Gentoo Java Guide, but the former seemed to presuppose |
| 26 |
> someone already involved in testing (understandable at this stage), and |
| 27 |
> the latter didn't seem to mention any of the newer 100% freedomware |
| 28 |
> alternatives I keep reading about. Thus, there was no answer I could grok. |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
This is a bit off topic for the subject at hand... |
| 31 |
|
| 32 |
That being said... one of our users has been working on using GCJ to |
| 33 |
this end: |
| 34 |
|
| 35 |
https://projects.gentooexperimental.org/expj/wiki/GCJ_as_a_JDK |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
As for why this hasn't been done already or more work isn't being done, |
| 38 |
I believe there are two reasons: |
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
1) We don't have the same restriction as Fedora and Debian do with |
| 41 |
regard to licensing. If we did, then we'd have a more pressing need to |
| 42 |
use 'free' Java implementations to even distribute Java stuff. |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
2) No one has stepped up with the desire / motivation / skills to make |
| 45 |
it happen. Not only that, but the Java team in generally has been |
| 46 |
understaffed for some time now. |
| 47 |
|
| 48 |
|
| 49 |
Josh |
| 50 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- |
| 51 |
Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) |
| 52 |
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org |
| 53 |
|
| 54 |
iD8DBQFElZF98ATTzZyw6sMRAmPRAJ9h/dcuRWayki0wmICgsataMdibOQCeKXMU |
| 55 |
PyYu7srJmtjejwJZxQVtFUU= |
| 56 |
=ZQQc |
| 57 |
-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
| 58 |
-- |
| 59 |
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
Archives