I first heard of plans of an open-source Java from IBM 55 days ago from Kevin Bedell's weblog quoting Eric Raymond but without further sourcing.

Today's traffic on the JPackage.org mailing list seems to unofficially confirm what that post said:

Michael A. Peters and Nicolas Mailhot:

Le mercredi 12 janvier 2005 à 01:38 +0000, Michael A. Peters a écrit :

> Also - perhaps a jpackage repo and key.
> That though is a little harder because currently (afaik) jpackage does  
> not provide a repo mirror list. Maybe that should wait until jpackage  
> has their free j2sdk done (I understand they are working on one)

Well, this is supposed to be secret stuff;) Please don't block on it -
there may someday be a redistributable jvm rpm at jpackage, and someday
may even be next week, but the $VENDOR we're working with obviously has
its own paying products higher on the priority list so it's taking some
time...

FYI at one point it looked like we could do jpp 1.6 with a jvm in but in
the end we had to do the release without it since it was taking too
long.

> Fedora already installs one jpackage package, and jpackage does seem to  
> be the way to go if you want to do java stuff on Fedora, I know of no  
> other alternative that works well through yum.

There is more than one jpackage package in Fedora Devel right now;).
Stuff is moving both ways pretty smoothly.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

Me:

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:18:35 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot
<Nicolas.Mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> 
> Well, this is supposed to be secret stuff;) Please don't block on it -
> there may someday be a redistributable jvm rpm at jpackage, and someday
> may even be next week, but the $VENDOR we're working with obviously has
> its own paying products higher on the priority list so it's taking some
> time...

Since you posted to a public mailing list, is it still a secret?  Can
I quote you in my blog?  Does the $Vendor have a three letter name
that starts with an I and ends with an M and has a B in the middle? :)

-- 
Weiqi Gao (高为奇)

Pete Chown:

Weiqi Gao wrote:

> Since you posted to a public mailing list, is it still a secret?

I guess it isn't secret any more!  Keeping something quiet on the
Internet is always a hopeless task...

> Does the $Vendor have a three letter name
> that starts with an I and ends with an M and has a B in the middle? :)

*No* *comment*!

Pete

Nicolas Mailhot:

> Since you posted to a public mailing list, is it still a secret?

That there is something in the works is not a big secret - we've got
leaks before. As for the rest, I won't confirm any timetable (or even
$VENDOR's name). I'll just say $VENDOR should and will be praised for
trying to work with us. It's not always easy. 

>  Can
> I quote you in my blog?  Does the $Vendor have a three letter name
> that starts with an I and ends with an M and has a B in the middle? :)

Since I've already said it's a commercial vendor I'll only confirm the
three-letter name part;)

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on January 17, 2005 7:31:20 PM CST #