Re: Plans about OpenJDK ?
Arnaud Vandyck writes:
> On 5/19/07, Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> [...]
> > Because openJDK won't be available for all architectures we will
> > have to use gcj for most of our architectures.
>
> That could lead to problems when we'll have a dfsg openjdk, it'll be
> on x86, x64, but what will be the status of other arches?
>
> What will we do with packages that needs openjdk to build and run?
> Will they be in main but only for x64 and x64 arches?
>
> Is there plans to include code from cacao or jamvm? or to port the vm
> on other arches?
>
> Maybe it's too early to answer, but when we'll have openjdk in our
> pool, the question will raise from users on arches !=(x86|x64).
There is supposedly a protable interpreter in OpenJDK. We (@ Red Hat)
are investigating this for other arches.
Andrew.
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