On Thursday 07 June 2007 19:01, Mark Wielaard wrote: > This announcement might be exciting news for some. > > IcedTea is basically a OpenJDK/GNU Classpath hybrid that can be used > to bootstrap OpenJDK using only Free Software. You will need the latest > gcj & ecj versions (Fedora 7 has them, but build instructions for other > GNU/Linux distros more than welcome of course) to play with it. > > We agreed to host it at http://icedtea.classpath.org/ because it is > such a valuable effort for the whole libre java community. But > IcedTea isn't an official GNU Classpath effort. Participants are > encouraged to push all their changes upstream into classpath > and openjdk. It is basically a staging area for people to play with > till all legal and technical issues of merging the code bases have > been worked out. > > Please join the openjdk distro-dev mailinglist to discuss this effort. > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/distro-pkg-dev It's very exciting news, Mark... gonna have to play with this now! Cheers, -- Andrew :-) Help end the Java Trap! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net
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