On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Oliver Falk <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: >> >> [ ... ] not >> to mention the serious problems of the port's viability implied by things >> like the lack of Java support > > gcj and openjdk work fine in Fedora. AFAIK, Gentoo also has Java for Alpha. > So it shouldn't be to hard to get it running on Debian!
In theory, Java should work on Gentoo, but we've never put any effort into it. I don't think it should be a priority over things like glibc and X.Org. >> and the general absence of a porter community. > > Well. Gentoo is still porting and Fedora (esp. Jay and /me) also. > > [ ... ] > > I'd like to mention; *I* often saw patches that helped me solve (Alpha) > problems on Fedora. So. If there's no Debian Alpha port, my (Fedora Alpha) > 'work' will get harder :-) Of course not if the Debian Alpha folks switch to > Fedora... :-P Looks like this is again a call for a central place for patches. Then again, there is a serious lack of actual developers for Alpha. I'll see what I can figure out. Matt Turner > > -of > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
