The end of compaq java. Current Gentoo/Alpha java situation.

Dear alpha crew:

After the last modification to our Gentoo/Java virtual
system (bug
#138747) , the completely disappeared upstream support (from
years ago),
the  problems and bugs related to compaq jdk/jre ebuilds
(see bugs:
#84306, #110611, etc) and the fact of a 1.3 vm is quite
obsolete
nowadays, the Gentoo/Alpha port have decided to drop the
support (hard 
masking ATM) for compaq-jre,compaq-jdk.

This means we currently haven't got a full working java (==
virtual/{jre,jdk} provider) for the alpha arch.

Not all is lost, since other ways are open to get a valid
and working
java environment for alpha. Kaffe and Sablevm seem to be the
best
choices now:

  - Kaffe: testing tinderbox [1] is running (thanks to
tcort).
  - SableVm: tcort and myself were testing it some time ago
and last
results seems to be pretty good. Ebuilds are in the tree
(just the
virtual machine) and in gentooexperimental[2].

If someone wants to hack a bit on this issue, setting up an
overlay and
start working on it could be the best way and we'll be
pleased to know
the results.

Wkr,

--
Jose Luis Rivero [yoswinkgentoo.org]
Gentoo/Doc Gentoo/Alpha


[1] Tinderbox
  - http://cs.ubish
ops.ca/~tcort/builder/

[2] SableVM-sdk
http://gentooexperimental.o
rg/svn/java/gentoo-java-experimental/dev-java/sablevm-sdk/
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