Re: [rvm-core] Progress on Debian packaging of Jikes RVM (incl. few questions)

[Thomas Preud'h. <ro...@ce...>]

Le dimanche 25 mars 2012 14:57:58, Thomas Preud'homme a écrit :

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> 
> Absolutely. In fact I already knew some of the answer, I just didn't think
> about them. But I was unaware of all the checks the VM perform, so the link
> are valuable to me. I will discuss with people who usually maintain java
> software in Debian and will make sure a warning in the package description
> is enough for this.
> 
> Also I think it would not scare users too much because the description will
> insist on the research aspect of Jikes RVM and should mostly attract people
> from research than people wanting to use Jikes RVM as a daily VM. I will
> keep you informed of the progress but don't expect progress before a few
> months (I have to finish my phD first, sorry).

I forgot to say that my plan is to provide several binary package out of Jikes 
RVM source. In particular, I intend to provide a seperate package for MMTk, 
for people who would like to play with these garbage collector. This means I 
could start providing this package before Jikes RVM can run with OpenJDK 
classpath.

> 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Erik Brangs
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas Preud'homme