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Joshua Nichols <nichoj@g.o> posted 4495917D.8000206@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:46:37 -0500: |
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> That being said... one of our users has been working on using GCJ to |
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> this end: |
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> https://projects.gentooexperimental.org/expj/wiki/GCJ_as_a_JDK |
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Thanks. |
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> As for why this hasn't been done already or more work isn't being done, |
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> I believe there are two reasons: |
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> 1) We don't have the same restriction as Fedora and Debian do with |
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> regard to licensing. If we did, then we'd have a more pressing need to |
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> use 'free' Java implementations to even distribute Java stuff. |
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> 2) No one has stepped up with the desire / motivation / skills to make |
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> it happen. Not only that, but the Java team in generally has been |
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> understaffed for some time now. |
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Understood. As I said, no pressure from me to do it if it's not being |
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done already. I just wondered what the status and chances were, thinking |
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if I was lucky a freedomware config might be one of the choices, and this |
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answers that to my satisfaction. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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