Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Simone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tony> Are there any significant differences between the 1.4.0.99 > Tony> Blackdown stuff you packaged and Sun's 1.4.0 or 1.4.1 > Tony> JDK's? I've been sticking with Sun's stuff so far because > Tony> I know it works with my apps and I just don't much free > Tony> time to evaluate others. > > I don't believe there are any differences between the Blackdown > packages & the Sun codebase; 1.4.0.99 is Sun's 1.4.1 beta. I'm sure > Juergen will correct me if I'm wrong.
It's based on some post-beta code (the differences to Sun's fcs codebase are negligible). The improvements over Sun's version are mainly bugfixes, performance enhancments and a few new features. The next release will be based on Sun's 1.4.1_01 code and have more performance enhancements (e.g. up to 80% faster image/java2d operations) and more fixes (like full LFS support, support for X with depth 24 and 24bpp, ...). There will be two versions: one built with gcc-2.95 and one built with gcc-3.2. > Tony> It seems that you've been packaging this stuff for a > Tony> while, which is great, but is there any chance of it > Tony> ending up in Debian proper? Will there be any j2sdk in > Tony> Debian anytime soon? > > Certain legal technicalities interfere with the inclusion of the > j2se packages by "Debian the organisation" on their mirrors. The > j2se packages will never be in "Debian the distribution" as their > licence violates the DFSG > <URL:http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html> And there's that 'remove non-free' discussion... I guess I'll switch to Gentoo ;-) Juergen -- Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
