Re: sun-jdk1.4-installer
Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com> writes:
>>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Simone <tony.simone@medvantx.com> writes:
> Tony> Are there any significant differences between the 1.4.0.99
> Tony> Blackdown stuff you packaged and Sun's 1.4.0 or 1.4.1
> Tony> JDK's? I've been sticking with Sun's stuff so far because
> Tony> I know it works with my apps and I just don't much free
> Tony> time to evaluate others.
>
> I don't believe there are any differences between the Blackdown
> packages & the Sun codebase; 1.4.0.99 is Sun's 1.4.1 beta. I'm sure
> Juergen will correct me if I'm wrong.
It's based on some post-beta code (the differences to Sun's fcs
codebase are negligible). The improvements over Sun's version are
mainly bugfixes, performance enhancments and a few new features.
The next release will be based on Sun's 1.4.1_01 code and have more
performance enhancements (e.g. up to 80% faster image/java2d
operations) and more fixes (like full LFS support, support for X with
depth 24 and 24bpp, ...). There will be two versions: one built with
gcc-2.95 and one built with gcc-3.2.
> Tony> It seems that you've been packaging this stuff for a
> Tony> while, which is great, but is there any chance of it
> Tony> ending up in Debian proper? Will there be any j2sdk in
> Tony> Debian anytime soon?
>
> Certain legal technicalities interfere with the inclusion of the
> j2se packages by "Debian the organisation" on their mirrors. The
> j2se packages will never be in "Debian the distribution" as their
> licence violates the DFSG
> <URL:http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html>
And there's that 'remove non-free' discussion...
I guess I'll switch to Gentoo ;-)
Juergen
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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/
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