Re: Java status?
Peter Lemenkov wrote:
2008/7/4 Andrew Haley <aph(a)redhat.com>:
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>> I'm interested because some packages still built with GCJ, and I'm
>> curious why they still not rebuild with (for example) OpenJDK?
> Why not?
Is it the only reason?
They already build perfectly well with gcj, so I can't see anything
to be gained by changing them.
>> Another question - what's the future of GCJ/ECJ in
Fedora? Will they
>> be superseded by OpenJDK?
> It's a big job to answer all that. Ultimately it will be limited
> by the number of people available to do the work, and we're trying
> to plan all that. Be aware that full OpenJDK support is only
> available on a few platforms, so there are gaps to fill.
What gaps?
Most non-x86 platforms. We have an interpreter-only port of OpenJDK for
other platforms, which works well but is rather slow.
Andrew.