On Sunday 01 February 2009 01:45:20 am Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le samedi 31 janvier 2009 à 18:28 -0700, Pete Zaitcev a écrit : > > Java is nice, but WORA is unbearable. So it's rare. I think the only > > two useful applications we ship are Azureus and RSSowl, and neither > > is used by Fedora to do Fedora things. > > And Eclipse, and all the java server stuff, and bits of OpenOffice.org, > etc > > Java's current sweet spot is middleware, it does that very well, and the > desktop stuff will come as soon as people are used to the idea we have > openjdk available in every good distros, and the openjdk/Sun people are > finished fixing the last legacy desktop warts (such as, font discovery > and handling hint hint). Shark[0] will go a long way towards making OpenJDK useful on every arch other than x86 and x86_64. But the current status of OpenJDK on PPC and non-x86 archs is it's vastly slower than GCJ. [0]: http://gbenson.net/ Regards, -- Conrad Meyer <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
