Volunteers needed to test IcedTea (on amd64) !!!

[Tom Marble]

peter green wrote:
>>Extra points awarded to testing on amd64!!!
> 
> I've been running a version of icedtea B21 built in an amd64 sid chroot
> from the ubuntu source packages that doko released on my mixed lenny/sid
> amd64 system.
> 
> The moleculeviewer applet seems to work fine.
That is certainly good to know as it demonstrates that IcedTea including
gcjwebplugin does interoperate correctly on amd64.

This would be strange because, apparently, IcedTea b21/amd64 works
on sid, but not gutsy?

> http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/lunar_lander_game.html works kind of
> but the fonts are too big (This could just be platform differences that
> the author didn't consider though) and sound also misbehaves (in some
> ways misbehaving sound makes things like this less playable than if
> there was no sound at all).
Sound is certainly an area where there could be some troubles.
Can you characterize the way sound misbehaves?  NOTE: part of this
may actually be present in Sun's "commercial" Java bits as well
(apparently we like to take over your sound system :( ).

Can you retest this with sun-java6-plugin (and set it with
# update-java-alternatives --set java-6-sun
) to see if the behavior is any different?
Of course you can't!  My bad.  We don't have plugin for amd64 :(
But this is now RFE#1 !!!
  http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/top25_rfes.do
And using gcjwebplugin is a stopgap measure until we get our
plugin source code released.  So perhaps someone could test
that applet in 32-bit mode (who also has access to an amd64 system)
to compare the behaviors.

> btw what is the status of the licensing issues that doko cited as being
> the reason for being unable to upload icedtea to the ubuntu repositries?
The "licensing issues" basically amount to certain (among the thousands
of files) that had incomplete copyright headers.  We are confident that
all the stuff we have released for OpenJDK is fine and so these sorts of
things amount to typos.  As of b21 most of these "typos" have been fixed.
If anyone has any questions about the disposition of a file please
let me know.

Thanks for the report!

--Tom