> I use Apple's JDK on Mac OS X, my main development platform. Oh yeah. There is one more technical factor to add into the mix, hopefully people's heads aren't ready to explode.
Debian supports a lot of architecture, I think the current number is 11. There are autobuilders for all of these architectures, but they only have access to Free Software. They don't have access to - say - the Apple or Sun JDK. * Matthew's current PyLucene package sidesteps this issue and should build on all architectures. * If we usse an entirely Free Software toolchain, it should also build on all architectures. * If we build with a proprietary Java SDK, it is still possible to pull this off thanks to "compile once, run anywhere" aspect of Java. But it will require some extra packaging finesse. I can help with this. -Jeff
