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David Highley wrote: |
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> I have some generic questions about the gentoo Java packages. First I |
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> wonder why you would package Sun's Java for x86 and x86_64 platforms |
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> since it can be down loaded from Sun. |
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Kind of an odd question... We actually package the JDKs / JREs that you |
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download from Sun, so that the installation is managed by portage. As |
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in, you can install, update, remove, etc. Additionally, you can have |
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multiple versions and vendors installed at the same time, and we have |
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tools for selecting which one you want to use at a given moment. |
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> Second question is why I do not see any apparent attempts at creating a |
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> package for Sun's distribution on the Power PC platform. I'm interested |
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> in this as we have a need for Java on an embedded OS platform that is |
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> running on a Power PC board. We are very interested in the effort it |
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> would take to build Sun's Java 1.5.x source to create a JRE for this |
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> platform the OS is very Linux like. Thanks |
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I believe that we used to do from-source packages of Sun's distribution. |
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I don't know the exact story abut why we dropped it, but I think it was |
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related to licensing issues or build issues. Could someone that knows |
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that story (Karl perhaps?) fill in the details ? |
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But what you're asking about here... I think it's more something you'd |
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have to talk to Sun about. |
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I'm not sure if you're aware, but IBM does have a JDK available on the |
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PPC. Would that suffice? |
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- Josh |
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