Hi,
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 14:28 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
Fedora new package list for FC4: http://people.redhat.com/sopwith/new-packages.txt Notice the large number of new packages written in the java programming language supported by gcj and gcj-java-compat. It would be nice if someone could make a live CD from some of the major packages to show off what is already possible. Fedora Core 4 development really is a bit ahead of the other distributions atm.
The Fedora and JPackage hackers gave me the following advice for showing people what already works:
Fedora Core 4 test 3 just came out yesterday: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-May/msg00020.html
An up to date package list can be found in the release notes (the list near the end of packages added since Fedora Core 3): http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/3.92/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en
A full package list for Fedora Core 4 can be found at: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/3.92/SRPMS/
It is interesting to compare the list of packages with the list of packages at jpackage.org. In principle an rpm from jpackage.org should just install and work with gcj and gcj-java-compat installed. In practise this is not always the case. Bug reports welcome.
To see how things work out of the box people should try for example the Apache Tomcat 5 support:
1. Install a FC4t3 box. http://fedora.redhat.com/download/test.html 2. yum install tomcat5 tomcat5-webapps tomcat5-admin-webapps 3. service tomcat5 start 4. Look at http://localhost:8080/
Assuming they know their way around Tomcat all they need to know to configure it is that CATALINA_HOME is /usr/share/tomcat5.
Similar things work out of the box by doing a yum install of some of the packages in the above list (ant, eclipse, jakarta-*, bcel, junit, struts, gjdoc, etc). All use gcj.
Mark, is there anything similar to that for debian and/or gentoo? (just curious, since I run debian those on my servers).
-- Stefano.
