On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:25:35PM +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Hi Jose, > > José Fonseca wrote: > > > > >PS: It's so sad that Java can't be included in standard Debian... :-( > > You can help improve the quality of the free java runtimes included in > debian by lending a hand to the various free java runtime efforts out > there (kaffe, sablevm, gcj, ...) , if you meet certain clean-room > conditions. They are getter better every day thanks to many people who > decided to stop waiting for Sun to make java free and take the necessary > steps themselves. You could be one of us. ;)
Unfortunately my time is limited, and much of it is already dedicated to help in other open-source efforts. My rant was really towards Sun's Java policy... (Where is that widely-available Java for Linux that Sun together with RedHat would bring to us?) But supposing I want to help one of the honorable efforts you mention above, just by testing it and submiting the bug-reports (or even take a stab at it myself), exactly which of those (kaffe, sablevm, gcj, ...) should I try to use? This is a question I had asked myself before. Regarding the classpath library there seems to be convergency towards the Gnu classpath library. But which VM (of the so many out there) is the open-source community backing in full-weight? I know that competition is natural (and quite often favorable) in open-source. But I can't help thinking I may be backing the wrong horse, and my time spent on it be in vain. Any thoughts about this? Jose Fonseca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
