Re: icedtea status?
Michael Koch writes:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:22:42AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> > 2008/1/7, Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de>:
> > [...]
> > > You know that even GCJ is not working on all our platforms?
> >
> > Yes I know and for those platforms, I don't see a problem moving the
> > package to main because there were no alternative before icedtea.
> >
> > > Given that fact we have to move *all* Java packages to contrib.
> > > Thats not really what we want.
> >
> > No, I don't want that and that's not what I'm trying to explain ;-)
> >
> > > > Anyway, Michael, thanks for working on Icedtea and I will not waste
> > > > time to send bug reports on packages that moved to main but should
> > > > IMHO remain in contrib.
> > >
> > > I understand, but do we really have other possible ways?
> >
> > Not moving packages that work only with icedtea to main at the moment.
>
> I agree that we have to take care when moving from contrib to main and
> that we have problems when some package in main works *only* with
> icedtea. IMO it is a good policy to file bugs against not working runtimes
> in this case so people know the problems and can work on them.
OK, but please also post gcj failures to java@gcc.gnu.org. At least,
thing that don't buld with the latest gcj. I can't promise we'll fix
everything, of course.
Andrew.
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