Hi James, On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:13:14 -0400 james wrote:
> On 07/21/18 11:10, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is someone aware of the existence of an ebuild for Java 11 e.g. >> somewhere in the overlays? Or has someone already crafted one and is >> willing to share it? >> >> Cheers, >> Jörg > > My response is:: > > https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/#xtoo-overlay > > I'm just learning/hacking java, so please provide me with robust > feedback so I know if this offering is great, or needs improvement > (what/where) and what it is missing, from your point of view. Coding in > Java is easy; understanding the history, gotcha and devining Oracle's > future intentions is often not clear to me. Hence, feedback is greatly > appreciated, on this list, privately or to a forum is all ok. > Just help me navigate the java landscape. I'd really like to work with > java on both gentoo and windows 7/10. I'm starting fresh with Java-11. Thanks for the interesting pointer and I will certainly look at the ebuild for Java 11 to adjust it for my needs. However, the overlay is not for me. I use Gentoo as my development platform and as library developer I have a need for a wide range of JDKs: $ java-config -L The following VMs are available for generation-2: 1) Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.03 [blackdown-jdk-1.4.2] 2) IBM JDK 1.4.2.13_p9 [ibm-jdk-bin-1.4] 3) IBM JDK 1.5.0.12_p5 [ibm-jdk-bin-1.5] 4) IBM JDK 1.6.0.9_p2 [ibm-jdk-bin-1.6] 5) IBM JDK 1.7.0.5 [ibm-jdk-bin-1.7] 6) IcedTea JDK 6.1.13.9 [icedtea-bin-6] 7) IcedTea JDK 7.2.6.11 [icedtea-bin-7] 8) IcedTea JDK 3.8.0 [icedtea-bin-8] 9) JamVM JDK 2.0.0 [jamvm] 10) Oracle JDK 1.7.0.80 [oracle-jdk-bin-1.7] 11) Oracle JDK 1.8.0.172 [oracle-jdk-bin-1.8] *) Oracle JDK 10.0.1 [oracle-jdk-bin-10] 13) Oracle JDK 9.0.4 [oracle-jdk-bin-9] 14) Sun JDK 1.5.0.22 [sun-jdk-1.5] 15) Sun JDK 1.6.0.45 [sun-jdk-1.6] Therefore I am not interested in replacing java-config with something else nor can I live with with the supported JDKs from the overlay, especially since it tries to replace dev-java/* from the standard Gentoo tree. Cheers, Jörg > > > hth, > James
