Meeting agenda robot

Ean Schuessler ean at brainfood.com
Wed Dec 24 20:12:38 UTC 2008


----- "Jimmy Kaplowitz" <jimmy at spi-inc.org> wrote:

> This is not really an answer to your question for a variety of reasons, not the
> least of which is I'm not Joerg, but do all these scalable and flexible Java
> frameworks work with OpenJDK, preferably as packaged in Debian? I certainly
> wouldn't want SPI stuff running on something that wasn't free software such as
> the binary Sun JRE/JDK, and I'd probably veto that as far as software relating
> to secretarial duties, such as we're discussing here.
> 
> Assuming the solution we end up with works entirely with free software
> (counting OpenJDK as free software), I don't have strong preferences as far as
> what we use, but I'm quite happy to defer to the preferences of Joerg in this
> regard since he's the one who will have to do the sysadmin work and I don't
> want his job to be unpleasant. I'd still be interested in knowing his reasons,
> both technical and non-technical, but I'm not going to dispute them.

OpenJDK is pretty much equivalent to JRE on the server. I don't do a lot of Swing programming these days so I'm not sure if the font hinting problems have been cleared up. I'm pretty sure they are.

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