On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:33:31AM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > When will we (or better, portage) be able to compile java from sources? > What's the status of the transition? How does openjdk relate to sun-jdk?
Apparently there are some bits in sun-jdk licensed from 3rd parties that are proprietary. Openjdk project is to replace the proprietary pieces to get a fully buildable open source java. However, there's already a project called IcedTea that combines the open parts of Java with GNU classpath to get a useable jdk. I found a package of it for one of my boxes running ubuntu, and it works fine. Maybe we should have an ebuild for it too.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
