Re: SableVM wrt Sun (was Re: SableVm support help and Re: JDK implementation question)

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:38 -0500, Stephen Compall wrote:
> The current version is 1.11.3, though 1.1.8 is still the version in
> sarge last I checked.

You can always check that by looking at:

	http://packages.debian.org/sablevm

ATM Sarge contains SableVM 1.11.1, but I plan to do yet another upload
only including selected bugfixes between 1.11.1 and 1.11.3.

> Also, the compiler, jar, and other tools aren't part of SableVM; it is
> just a virtual machine.  jikes and fastjar are great Free alternatives,
> and when there is a compatibility layer that emulates the JDK directory
> layout, it will depend upon those tools.

SableVM is constantly evolving towards a much better support for
features commonly used, like the JAVA_HOME-like structure (even if it's
ugly, gah!) and tools available there in Sun's SDK.  Our support for
many of these should importantly improve with the May release.

Cheers,

			Grzegorz B. Prokopski
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