Jan de Groot schrieb:
Since a while, there's an alternative to java-gcj-compat, called icedtea. This project is based on openjdk, with the difference that missing pieces of openjdk are filled in with parts from GNU classpath. One example is the webbrowser plugin, that has been missing from x86_64 since java's existence for this platform. The icedtea6 java environment passes sun's testsuite, making it a full blown GPL'ed java environment that is compatible with Sun's java. As it's developed by redhat, it also compiles fine with GCC 4.3, which we can't say about openjdk.
I always wanted to try openjdk/icedtea, but was too confused by the different packages in AUR. The PKGBUILDs were difficult to read and seemed to do "too much".
I would propose to package icedtea/openjdk for archlinux and make it the prefered java environment. Packaging this java environment requires a java compiler, our current free java platform is able to build icedtea/openjdk from source.
A nice and clean package that gives me a fully compatible Java runtime and a browser plugin would be very good. +16 from me.
As you said java-gcj-compat didn't work too well, at least with the browser plugin.
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