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Hi list, |
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I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and |
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now am getting a bit confused. |
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Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in fact, I am running |
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icedtea-bin-1.10.4. Today, portage wants to |
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[ebuild U ] dev-java/icedtea-bin-6.1.10.4 [1.10.4] |
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[ebuild N ] sys-apps/attr-2.4.46-r1 USE="nls -static-libs" |
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[ebuild NS ] virtual/jre-1.7.0 [1.6.0] |
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[ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea-7.2.0-r1 USE="nsplugin -debug -doc -examples -jamvm -javascript -pulseaudio -systemtap -webstart -zero" |
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[ebuild NS ] virtual/jdk-1.7.0 [1.6.0] |
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[ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea-web-1.1.3-r7 USE="nsplugin -build -doc" |
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And apparently I have many different choices of icedtea: |
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* dev-java/icedtea |
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Latest version available: 7.2.0-r1 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of files: 65,904 kB |
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Homepage: http://icedtea.classpath.org |
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Description: A harness to build OpenJDK using Free Software build tools and dependencies |
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License: Apache-1.1 Apache-2.0 GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-2-with-linking-exception LGPL-2 MPL-1.0 MPL-1.1 public-domain W3C |
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* dev-java/icedtea-bin |
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Latest version available: 6.1.10.4 |
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Latest version installed: 1.10.4 |
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Size of files: 36,173 kB |
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Homepage: http://icedtea.classpath.org |
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Description: A Gentoo-made binary build of the Icedtea6 JDK |
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License: GPL-2-with-linking-exception |
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* dev-java/icedtea-web |
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Latest version available: 1.1.3-r7 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of files: 791 kB |
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Homepage: http://icedtea.classpath.org |
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Description: FOSS Java browser plugin and Web Start implementation |
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License: GPL-2 GPL-2-with-linking-exception LGPL-2 |
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I figure that icedtea-bin is the binary version of icedtea, but |
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(i) What is icedtea-web? |
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(ii) Why the version jump from 1.10.4 to 6.1.10.4? |
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(iii) Why is the -bin one major version behind icedtee? |
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(iv) Do I really need to have so many different java things on my computer? |
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Thanks, |
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W |
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-- |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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