[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Java on 770

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Murray Cumming schreef:
> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 18:02 +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 15:13 +0200, ext Tommi Komulainen wrote:
>>>       * http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-November/006188.html
>>>         Java on the 770
>>>         
>>>         "Now that Java will be put under the GPL is there any plan (from
>>>         Nokia) to integrate it into the firmware?"
>> We don't have any plans at the moment.
>>
>> On personal note, if someone makes nice packages it would be easier to
>> gather some community effort around Java. It would also make our lives
>> easier when the question about integrating Java comes up again.
> 
> So, something for a new garage.maemo.org project. Then we can just
> apt-get install it from extras.

Do we really need a garage project for something that is basically a Makefile? I can
already see it happening that someone is going to but the java sources in garage svn
"because it's easier" and we end up with a unmaintainable fork.
I'm all for java packages for maemo, but lets do it in a sustainable way.

regards,

Koen

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