java jvm/jdk

[Michael McCabe]

Gentoo requires it's users to fetch the jvm package from Sun or IBM's
webpage.  I'd prefer to stay away from Blackdown, I've always gotten
better performance out of the Sun or IBM jdk.  If we this is only being
brought up because of Eclipse how about looking into building it with
gcj.  I used Eclipse 2.0 with gcj and it was stable.

Mike

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 04:17 -0200, Fábio Mendes wrote:
> > > > Not so far, but we'll most likely look into distribution of the Sun and
> > > > IBM JVMs.
> > > 
> > > fwiw. i believe that the ibm jvm is redistributable, gentoo for example
> > > redistributes it.
> > 
> > I would be surprised if they did, given the license terms.  This page seems
> > to indicate otherwise:
> > 
> > [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml]
> 
> Is there any chances blackdown java can get in if it's freely
> distributuable? I like the idea of talking to sun, or ibm. We may not
> agree on how software should be developed/distributed, but we're not
> microsoft and we can play nice :-)
> 
> > So it sounds like they provide a wrapper of some sort, but the user must
> > obtain the software for themselves.
> 
> This is better than nothing anyway. I couldn't find the proper place to
> download IBM jre in their site (in think they obfuscate on purpose). So,
> at some time i was redirected to sun download site (?). Damn ibm! I
> downloaded sun VM and it's working fine now. There were some tedious
> work, though: creating the java debs, installing packages, running
> update-alternatives, creating symlinks (i followed the wiki
> instructions). Those are not show stoppers, but can be automated and
> will surelly scare the newbies.
> 
> Fabio
> 
> > -- 
> >  - mdz
> > 
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