Joshua Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:46:37 -0500:
> That being said... one of our users has been working on using GCJ to > this end: > > https://projects.gentooexperimental.org/expj/wiki/GCJ_as_a_JDK Thanks. > As for why this hasn't been done already or more work isn't being done, > I believe there are two reasons: > > 1) We don't have the same restriction as Fedora and Debian do with > regard to licensing. If we did, then we'd have a more pressing need to > use 'free' Java implementations to even distribute Java stuff. > > 2) No one has stepped up with the desire / motivation / skills to make > it happen. Not only that, but the Java team in generally has been > understaffed for some time now. Understood. As I said, no pressure from me to do it if it's not being done already. I just wondered what the status and chances were, thinking if I was lucky a freedomware config might be one of the choices, and this answers that to my satisfaction. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
