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Last weekend I attended DevJam. See these two links: |
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http://java.debian.net/index.php/DevJam |
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http://www.skolelinux.de/wiki/FreeJava/Meeting050923 |
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Here follows some of my thoughts. Not everything here but will write |
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more later for example. |
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Classpath: |
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Core things are there but many libraries still need a lot of work or |
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just have stub implementations. But people are working on it and it |
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improves all the time. |
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Vm: |
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There seem to be quite a few of these. Many interesting things going on |
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and I learned about a new one called CACAO. Of course it was nice to |
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meet Dalibor Topic in real life. |
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To native: |
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Fedora compiles everything to native and the big applications work for |
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them. Of course you need a patched 4. something to get the best results |
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so this is not something that will go mainstream Gentoo any time soon. |
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Andrew Haley, the upstream gcj maintainer from RedHat, said that libgcj |
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can be released separately in the future after they get the interface |
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defined. At the moment the interface is still in too big of a flux for |
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the stuff to be separated. I have unmasked the newest gcc release in |
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portage and play with it to see how it works. I think we can get a nice |
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speed boost with it while still using the non-free core libraries to |
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have all the needed implementations. Of course Classpath should become |
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our number one core library in the future. |
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My presentation: |
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People seemed to find it useful and interesting. |
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You can find the slides here: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~betelgeuse/show.pdf |
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Other: |
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There were representations about how Debian packages stuff. I think our |
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system is better. At least the Debian thing did seem more compicated. |
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And I met a lot of nice people. I will certainly attend these things |
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more often if at all possible. Dalibor Topic told a lot about the way |
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the java world runs (JCP) and that was very interesting to listen to. Of |
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course it was in general very nice to meet other developers. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse) |