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[Bryan Varner <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't you hate when you click the wrong button in a web-mail interface?

FYI - I responded off-list, the gist of the message is:

I, and I believe several others are interested in porting OpenJDK to Haiku.


This will be a lot of work, and that may be a very large understatement.

As of right now, the OpenJDK project isn't really set up to be friendly to
platform ports. I've brought this to the attention of several at Sun, and I
will continue to attempt to resolve this political bull. Andrew Bachmann
and I discussed a bit at FalterCon how and when it would be good to start
working on porting the OpenJDK. There are large changes coming to the
OpenJDK project, which would be beneficial for us to wait for. They're
still trying to solidify the project structure (the current structure
that's not port-friendly is a stop-gap), and they'll be moving to Mercurial
for source-control. Starting before these changes take effect doesn't make
a lot of sense to either myself or Andrew.

So, to answer the question, is Haiku planning on porting java? No.

Am I (and probably others) planning on porting java? You betcha. Get those
bounties rolling folks, make it worth my time. :-D

-Bryan 

P.S. The 1.4.2 Java port for R5 nearly runs on Haiku last time I checked.
The kernel wouldn't reserve a big enough chunk (32MB iirc), so perhaps I
should check my virtual memory settings? 


On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:16:03 -0400, Bryan Varner <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:16:23 +0200, "Jérôme Duval"
> <korli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2007/9/7, Ilya 'jartur' Pavlenkov <jartur@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>                 I wonder if there are plans for Java port for Haiku? I
>> mean
>>
>> There is a work in progress. Last time I heard, it was here :
>> http://bryan.varnernet.com/category/development/beos-java/
>>
>> Bye,
>> Jérôme