On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 14:03 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 21:39:23 schrieb Jan de Groot:
This gcc-gcj release looks very solid to me, there shouldn't be any problem running eclipse with it for example (hey, gcj is compiled by eclipse ;)).
Was there any change to the java license or is the current jdk distribution of arch just illegal? Does eclipse really work with gcj? Last time a take a look at gcj and classpath they were far away from implementing a full jdk6 including swing etc..
Our current distribution makes use of the DLJ, which allows distribution. This is a special non-free distribution license that only allows specific versions to get distributed. About eclipse: Ubuntu and Redhat have it running with GNU java. The recent work done on eclipse-ecj integration in GNU Java I did makes GNU java fully support java 5.0, which is enough to be competetive these days. GCJ is no longer a compiler, it's a wrapper to the eclipse compiler now.