On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:40:57AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > 2008/1/6, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [...] > > I have to say I agree with Petter. I would say that stuff can go to main > > when it works on one or two or three archs and not others with free > > runtimes. Runtimes will get bug reports that stuff dont works on certain > > platforms and people will work on this. This will encourage even more > > people... > > I don't agree and I think it's a sort of lie. There has been two or > three years that we agreed to take gcj as our reference free vm. A > package that could be built and run with gcj is considered completely > free and can move to main. Now, if we move every packages to main > because they can be built and run with openjdk, we send a bad message > to our users.
You know that even GCJ is not working on all our platforms? Given that fact we have to move *all* Java packages to contrib. Thats not really what we want. > 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? Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
