Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Nov 2004 20:48 UTC
We had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Sun's COO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday. We talked about a variety of things, including Java, Solaris, Red Hat and good ol' Unix.
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If you look at the Classpath team table, you'll see that ~10 out of ~60 people are from Red Hat. Hardly a steering majority there.
Like JamVM, IKVM, SableVM, JikesRVM, ORP, ...
Gcj'ed jars are coming into other distributions beside FC4. With gcj 4.0 upcoming, and binary compatibility ABI for gcj-ed libraries, all those cumbersome jars turn into nice shared objects, that are much nicer to handle from a packaging perspective. JPackage is doing some nice work in this area to make packages that ship both bytecode for gcj-bc-abi unaware runtimes, and precompiled shared libraries for gcj.
Kaffe is going to be able to use gcj-ed code, too, and other free runtimes[1] will probably follow. Chances are pretty good that other distributions, like SuSE, Mandrake or Debian will adopt JPackage's approach to allow for both free software runtimes and non-free ones to co-exist and happily crunch the bytecodes, native code, or both
cheers,
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[1] You know, the ones not steered by Red Hat