-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 1/9/16 6:10 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > Dear all PowerPC users, > > So please let me know if you have been using Java on this platform. > I did wonder whether we had any users at all but one has spoken up > in #gentoo-powerpc. I told them that they could manually download > IBM's JVM to run their single application jar and they were happy > with that. If that's all you need Java for then I hope you will > find that satisfactory. I could be persuaded to keep the ~ppc > keyword in icedtea but you'll need to speak up now. I won't be > keeping keywords in the Java virtuals as that would imply a level > of support that isn't really there.
This saddens me but we don't want to over burden the java team. The future in ppc is probably going to be ppc64le so let's focus our energy there. Thanks James :) > > There are probably some packages that aren't typically associated > with Java that will be affected by this. I haven't made a list but > I suspect it doesn't contain anything majorly important. Thankfully > LibreOffice no longer has a hard dependency on Java. > > Regards, > - -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. Chair of Information Technology D'Youville College Buffalo, NY 14201 (716) 829-8197 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWkwV3AAoJEGYZIgZZJvHWcMoP/2atjihkyggMcugaLYvzYA6T K3xpr06+H67JJiqtfE5dWwMqEBT/P5XpGzTmF3IAcApHN3xJ10NxiBsF2wcY7GQv mr6fCjcle1nTL6b+rp4ZF/r0zK5XDw9cz5msmqUBHdUA3t53DiXSipumaNTXEZLs ZT4PRCPW6P/ZwTS0b5JXWb2HRGEkpHYEOqnfsB2W1O0YuxPdOB7rySCo8qYdz9J5 BWxMwGhaBiopHJLtWga6FR+3TtlWNtZJDXaH0piboYC39dCVJz+U4xReeT48R95+ uh0Xn+j2OO1GHhE4JqAsbgIJ4FUelIgWONmf379nJRDXGpKCds7duMX/WZ2oU7i8 PeqpJB1HWZtRbX4e7kWKwfLvMh5KhfBMjMGm5/HUSjmuKxLT5aZctjlEHkJ1nxJF 62EycQiPOUXcZwWyfXl6LOJ1YHLTkWt85qUp9NuFf0MIsTlVmhuSOLwLNUrBkX2+ GtjZS8bZms3wIlgaHIlFfbCrEJqr/dzBWR0dDckG0dnaZ6n1wnj4a6lc55EuMpYX aqI/xn6msXUi/IHzFHPLDfFnCFZgMfn19sTcDxNPFTH/jHdZtneIIgs3Zk2j5gSX p6I7yMsYUW/28nw7JigExx0SmEOJryOcxRZYtASZg7kKIhHFolwQo2OQcm0jZhr/ piAans5hJ6ipksdSRGku =agnH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
