From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from guinness.internal.neep.com.au (ns1.au.network4.net [203.25.143.225]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8169E482A for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:18:12 -0700 (MST) Received: (from andrew@localhost) by guinness.internal.neep.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id UAA07245 for parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:18:02 +0800 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:18:00 +0800 From: Andrew Shugg To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Mozilla, etc. Message-ID: <20020328201757.B6833@neep.com.au> References: <20020327151405.2397A482F@dsl2.external.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from davidd@et.byu.edu on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:27:11PM -0700 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Quoth David Dougall: > PS: is there any hope of a jre on parisc-linux? I would say definitely, after this recent press release from the Apache Software Foundation: http://www.apache.org/foundation/news.html (linking to) http://www1.internetwire.com/iwire/release_html_b1?release_id=39838 "ASF reaches agreement with Sun Microsystems to allow open source Java implementations." What I _think_ this means (after reading through the full article) is that we're going to see fully open, 100%-approved Java implementations running natively in Linux and other alternative operating systems in the near future. I don't know what the current issues (if any) are with building the jdk1.1 or jdk1.2 packages under linux-hppa, but I would hope that following this announcement HP will (somehow) be able to assist in getting a production-ready JRE into linux-hppa. (Caveat: I could have this all wrong of course.) Once HPUX binary compatibility is working properly the HPUX JRE could probably be used as well, but if there's a comparable native solution I don't know if many people will go to that effort. Andrew. -- Andrew Shugg http://www.neep.com.au/ "Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."