Re: Considering RM of jamvm and cacao

[Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> wrote:
> Le jeudi 11 février 2010 à 11:37 +0100, Niels Thykier a écrit :
>> It turns out that we have still have jvmvm and cacao in Debian; the
>> question is, do we really want them?
>>
>> For reference; cacao has not been in testing since 2006-12-15 (and thus
>> not in etch nor lenny). jamvm only provides java1-runtime[1].
>>
>> On a related note: neither appeared to have any r(B-)D left, so it
>> should not be difficult to do the removal.
>>
> I support this removal.
> It add too much confusions to Java users & maintainers...

  +1. We basically only need openjdk and gcj (and the cacao variant of
openjdk, which is performing much better on some platforms, it seems).

  Cheers,

      Vincent

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