JDK 7 M5 + Jigsaw binary packages available

Alistair Bush ali_bush at gentoo.org
Sun Nov 29 01:56:12 PST 2009


> Highly-experimental, alpha-quality binary packages of JDK 7 M5 together
> with Jigsaw are now available.  Please see the project page [1] for more
> information.

I'm muttering aloud with this but.....  Would it be possible to get a source 
tarball as well?

I have been toying with the idea of creating a ebuild for gentoo that produces 
a 'jigsaw' jdk so that I can investigate how jigsaw will influence the way 
gentoo packages and builds java libs/apps.

There are really 2 ways I can do it.  One is to create a scm ebuild that 
checks out the tree ( and can be configured to automatically reinstall/update 
every day/month) or one based off a 'release' tarball.  Obviously the scm 
ebuild needs to be kept up to date so that it always builds HEAD and is 
therefore more work and a huge download.  But on the other it has a certain 
cool factor :)  It is also initially what I will hopefully attempt.   But into 
the future if gentoo is to provide jigsaw to its users than the tarball will 
be a requirement.   

Also is it my understanding correct that jigsaw will not be included in java 
7?   Are there plans to then include it in java 8?

Alistair



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