On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 14:51 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Am Sonntag, 29. Juni 2008 01:29:11 schrieb Jan de Groot:
Making this switch means no official support for java-gcj-compat anymore. If something continues working with java-gcj-compat, it's nice, but if it doesn't, we don't consider it a bug.
Please let me know what your thoughts are about this change.
A working OS Java would be really nice. gcj wasn't a real alternative. How difficult is it to package?
Maybe we could test it a while; but in the end I wouldn't mind replacing jdk by openjdk if everything works fine.
packaging isn't so difficult. It's nothing more than just downloading openjdk sources, icedtea6 sources, applying a patch so openjdk knows to find some important system binaries in /bin instead of /usr/bin (these are in AUR), then running configure and make from the icedtea6 sources and as final step, package up the resulting java sdk/jre directories in the same way we do for the current JDK/JRE packages. The AUR PKGBUILD contains a lot of patches and special steps to get this thing built, but I don't see the need to do it that way. I'ld like to keep this thing as vanilla as possible.