VisualVM in IcedTea6

[Andrew Haley]

Lillian Angel wrote:

>> 2008/7/30 Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>

>> Have to say I wondered what was going on when I saw the
>> ChangeLog entry, and I still don't understand the reasoning.
>> Is there a reason this has to be built WITH the VM?  If it's a
>> truly separate application, then building them against each
>> other is a job for a distro.  Otherwise, the next logical step
>> is --with-eclipse, --with-jboss, --with-glassfish, etc.

> VisualVM is a tool we would eventually like to ship with
> IcedTea/OpenJDK.

In the same package?  I can't see any reason it should be.  The IcedTea
package might usefully be made more fine-grained, not less.

> Right now it is not enabled by default because of the NetBeans
> requirement. There has been some progress to get NetBeans
> packaged in Fedora, and when that happens we wont require
> NetBeans/profiler to build visualvm. Since visualvm has been
> GPL'd and is a really cool tool, we would like to have it in
> Fedora eventually.  This is just the first step until that can
> be done.

Sure, would be nice to have it in Fedora.

Andrew.