Am So, den 19.12.2004 schrieb Jeff Kinz um 19:53: > > The way to go with Java from FC3 on is to use http://www.jpackage.org. > Just out of curiosity, what is that Java package the best way to go > for FC3. rather than say Sun's ? > Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Jeff, do you mean "why" rather than "what"? I only would understand the question if it starts with "why is that Java package the best [...] for FC3?". It is because FC3 comes with packages to support jpackage (java-1.4.2-gcj-compat + jpackage-utils) and FC4 and later will integrate jpackage even more. This is to be read as a statement by Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@xxxxxxxxxx> on the testers list: topic "Re: installing Java" on Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:18:42 -0500 > For Fedora Core 3, do I need to install a Java distribution, or is there > a Java that already works? A quick check shows I have a jar utility > installed but not, apparently, a java engine. The Release Notes say > nothing about Java. yum install java-1.4.2-gcj-compat java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-devel For gcj, else go to jpackage.org and follow the instructions on http://jpackage.org/rebuilding.php Build and install java-1.4.2-VENDOR you'll want to install the -devel package, plus -fonts and -plugin for applets. Then add the jpackage repos to yum and you should be all set. We hope to have a 1.6 release very shortly (final touches) Paul topic "Re: java (tomcat&others)" on Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:51:08 -0500: > why is tomcat and other java related things droped from FC3? > i cannot find any informations about that Most of the java packaging work is going on upstream at JPackage - http://jpackage.org/ Hopefully 1.6 will be coming out soon - with all sorts of shiny newness. Paul On the developers list with topic "Re: Java and Rawhide?" on Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:45:27 +0100: > Should be no problem to push your fixed java packages to Extras, which > can happen anytime even after the release of FC3. JPackage is already the upstream - so pushing there makes more sense than Extras IMHO. The hope is we can support both free (including native) and proprietary JDKs. Paul On the rpm list with topic "Re: rpm --addsign seems broken" on Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:34:16 -0500: However - I'd recommend using the a sane (http://jpackage.org) JDK built on a modern rpm system and get the benefit of FHS compliant packaging, alternative JDKs, many packages, etc. See the non-free section and also http://jpackage.org/rebuilding.php Paul So I think the Fedora (Red Hat) strategy regarding Java support is clear. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp Serendipity 22:08:26 up 9 days, 16:49, load average: 0.29, 0.71, 0.61
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