On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 23:07, Horst wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Larry Price wrote: > ... > > > > also java on debian "write once debug everywhere?" > > > what is this ? -- why don't distros just add a link so users can download > Sun's SDK and JRE ? -instead of re-inventing the wheel ? > Is this a licensing issue ? > > A couple of weeks ago I explored Jython as a way to port python programs > to run on the JVM; worked OK(ignoring a couple of flaws) until I tried it > on my Mdk 9.0 distro which comes with 'kaffe' instead of the real thing. > > I am sure I am missing something, and 'kaffe' could be trained, but why? > Why re-inventing the wheel ? > > - Horst
Some folks can't handle Sun's licensing terms... There was some recent hooplah about JBoss getting certification, and Sun has taken some tactical action which makes it possible (but also difficult) for that Open Source project... The article (got slashdotted) and feedback might help fill in some of the details; I'm not terribly clear on all of the issues people have with Sun, but we use Sun's JDK, J2EE, and JSSE. I hear Kaffe is coming along nicely, though -- and just the other day, I came across an older mozilla.org project, called ElectricalFire (a JVM that uses JIT compilation, started by Netscrape... links: http://news.com.com/2100-1013-993471.html http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/20/1858220&mode=thread&tid=102&tid=108 http://mozilla.org/projects/ef/ and another JBoss-related one that I somehow missed: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1538247&mode=thread&tid=98 JBoss is now "profit-sharing" with its developers! cheers, Ben B _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
