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Am 2013-08-26 18:40, schrieb James: |
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> Wolfgang Liebich <wolfgang.liebich <at> siemens-enterprise.com> writes: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I'm using GENTOO linux as development platform for Java applications. |
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>> JAVA 8 is not officially out there, but still I would like to start |
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>> testing it, and there are "early access" |
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>> downloads at the oracle website. |
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> Checkout project sunrise and then other overlay sites for early offerings... |
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Is there something like a comprehensive guide to the overlays, or a overlay search engine? |
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I looked around in some of the JAVA overlays, but they look rather dated (or contain only java based |
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application's ebuilds). |
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>> Furthermore, the ebuilds for the IBM JDKs seem to be somewhat abandoned - |
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> is there an build for the ibm jdk V7 |
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>> available somewhere? I did not |
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>> find anything (yet)... |
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> IMHO, JAVA get's a bad rap in the open source world for a variety, |
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> sometimes very good, reasons. What JAVA on gentoo lacks is devoted |
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> afficionado team to keep up with supporting JAVA on Gentoo... |
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There was a JAVA project for gentoo, but it seems quite dead. The wiki pages refer to the transition to JAVA 5, |
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was...well... some time ago :-) |
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This is a pity, though, as the java-config mechanism is really very useful. |
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> YMMV, |
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> hth, James |
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