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On 1/9/16 6:10 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> Dear all PowerPC users, |
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> So please let me know if you have been using Java on this platform. |
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> I did wonder whether we had any users at all but one has spoken up |
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> in #gentoo-powerpc. I told them that they could manually download |
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> IBM's JVM to run their single application jar and they were happy |
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> with that. If that's all you need Java for then I hope you will |
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> find that satisfactory. I could be persuaded to keep the ~ppc |
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> keyword in icedtea but you'll need to speak up now. I won't be |
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> keeping keywords in the Java virtuals as that would imply a level |
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> of support that isn't really there. |
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This saddens me but we don't want to over burden the java team. The |
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future in ppc is probably going to be ppc64le so let's focus our |
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energy there. |
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Thanks James :) |
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> There are probably some packages that aren't typically associated |
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> with Java that will be affected by this. I haven't made a list but |
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> I suspect it doesn't contain anything majorly important. Thankfully |
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> LibreOffice no longer has a hard dependency on Java. |
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> Regards, |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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Chair of Information Technology |
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D'Youville College |
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Buffalo, NY 14201 |
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(716) 829-8197 |
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