[Chandler-dev] Project to package Chandler in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

[Mike Taylor]

On Nov 2, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Mike Taylor wrote:

>
> On Nov 1, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>
>> Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>>> The people behind the Ubuntu project are ramping up planning for the
>>> next long term release of Ubuntu, code named Hardy Heron. The plan  
>>> is to
>>> release that in April 2008.
>>>
>>> We want to get Chandler into the official Hardy Heron  
>>> repositories, so
>>> that Ubuntu users will be able to get Chandler like they get any  
>>> other
>>> piece of software, i.e. using their package manager.
>>>
>>> The project wiki page is
>>> http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/UbuntuHardyHeronChandler. The  
>>> wiki
>>
>> Bear was recently at a conference with the Ubuntu people where Hardy
>> Heron was discussed. There has been some talk on what he learned, but
>> we'd better put it all on the list as well so everyone will have the
>> same info.
>>
>> Some things I remember bear saying:
>>
>> * openjdk won't make it as the default java in Hardy Heron  
>> timeframe. I
>> think this means that we either need to still ship Chandler with
>> openjdk, or we'll have to pick some java package to depend on. I'd
>> prefer if we picked sun-java 6 dependency rather than ship openjdk  
>> (of
>> course if openjdk package is included in Hardy Heron we should go  
>> for that).
>
> OpenJDK is starting to make it into the debian system, but that's  
> using a non Sun environment.  I'm monitoring the openjdk lists for  
> traffic but I dont think it's a build priority for them.  The Debian  
> folks just don't move fast when it comes to Sun.
>
> I'm still trying to find the person in the Ubuntu realm who is  
> tracking this.

Andi just corrected a mis-understanding on my part - the "non Sun" bit  
I was referring to was Icedtea - which I now know is just a fork of  
the non-GPL'd pieces.

He pointed me to http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=16 and http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=17

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