On 18/09/2007, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
> MC wrote:
> > [...]
> >> Since we don't yet have a JRE that can be included
> >>
> >
> > It was my understanding that the JRE would be included, so it would make 
> > sense to plan for that. (Ian Murdock on this: 
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134939#134939 )
> >
> > I also see from Moinak and Anil that the JRE is reasonably sized:
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134668#134668
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134696#134696
> >
>
>    Size is not the issue for JRE. At present Swing/AWT still
>    links with Motif libraries on Solaris as opposed to Gtk
>    on Linux.
>
>    Since Solaris Motif is closed and non-redistributable this
>    makes a Java GUI non-functional on Indiana. The solution
>    is for libawt and friends to either link with Gtk or
>    OpenMotif on Solaris.

I don't see that as making it so you can't ship it. It just means
linking Gtk or OpenMotif, which I think has been talked about.

If worse comes to worse, we can always just ship IcedTea and call it a day...

-- 
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