Re: Experimental Build Repository at icedtea.classpath.org

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On Thursday 07 June 2007 19:01, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> This announcement might be exciting news for some.
>
> IcedTea is basically a OpenJDK/GNU Classpath hybrid that can be used
> to bootstrap OpenJDK using only Free Software. You will need the latest
> gcj & ecj versions (Fedora 7 has them, but build instructions for other
> GNU/Linux distros more than welcome of course) to play with it.
>
> We agreed to host it at http://icedtea.classpath.org/ because it is
> such a valuable effort for the whole libre java community.  But
> IcedTea isn't an official GNU Classpath effort. Participants are
> encouraged to push all their changes upstream into classpath
> and openjdk.  It is basically a staging area for people to play with
> till all legal and technical issues of merging the code bases have
> been worked out.
>
> Please join the openjdk distro-dev mailinglist to discuss this effort.
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/distro-pkg-dev

It's very exciting news, Mark... gonna have to play with this now!

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-- 
Andrew :-)

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