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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:15:03
Message-Id: 20060816191015.GB552@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations] by Thomas Cort
1 * Thomas Cort <tcort@g.o> schrieb:
2 > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:11:24 +0200
3 > Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote:
4 >
5 > > I'm working on my own tool, written in java.
6 >
7 > That's great. Have you or are you going to setup a project page
8 > somewhere (maybe sourceforge.net)?
9
10 Not yet. Would you like to do that job ? :)
11
12 > You should be aware that java isn't available on every platform
13 > that Gentoo supports and isn't Free software.
14
15 Aehm, java is an language. How can an language be unfree ?
16
17 AFAIK there are opensource JVMs which should run on almost all
18 platforms, ie. kaffe. Okay, last time I checked kaffe ebuild,
19 it was broken. But it's quite some time ago ...
20
21
22 cu
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25 Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/
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27 Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
28 http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
29 Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
30 http://patches.metux.de/
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Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations] Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>