Java (was: Release candidate status)

[Trent Lloyd]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:35:41AM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, George Farris wrote:
> 
> Hello George,
> 
> > Is a quick easy Java install going to be in Multiverse again?
> 
>   paul at katu:~$ java --version | head -1
>   java version "1.4.2"
> 
> GCJ is in 'main' and 'just works'.

Thats not true, it doesn't work with alot of applications.

A prime example of a popular application that doesn't work is azureus
(azureus.sf.net) and the web plugin is very insecure and I beleive
disabled.

Cheers,
Trent

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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
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