From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 20 19:02:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03843 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 19:02:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from conductor.synapse.net (conductor.synapse.net [199.84.54.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA03771 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 19:01:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evanc@synapse.net) Received: (qmail 8341 invoked from network); 21 Mar 1998 03:01:59 -0000 Received: from cpu1970.adsl.bellglobal.com (HELO cello) (206.47.37.201) by conductor.synapse.net with SMTP; 21 Mar 1998 03:01:59 -0000 Message-ID: <01df01bd5475$c52476d0$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net> From: "Evan Champion" To: "Eivind Eklund" , "Robert Watson" , "Derek Flowers" Cc: "Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC" , "Daniel O'Callaghan" , Subject: Re: after the release ... Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 22:02:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >I'm right now looking at adding support for the JAR manifest standard >to pkg_add. The only loss I can see is that until somebody re-write >the signing software you'll have to have Java installed to sign >packages. I hope the amount of work to make this work should be >feasible to have it ready over the next few days - it looks fairly >simple. One could argue that it would be a good idea to leave the signing software alone and include Java standard in 3.0-current... The comment on is: This is a pre-release version of Sun's Java Development Kit ported to FreeBSD. It is being tested for any problems that might exist. No known significant bugs exist at this time, but there are no guarantees of usability. I think that pretty much describes 3.0-current in general so it would fit right in :-) I may be alone on this, but I would certainly like to see Java as standard-issue on FreeBSD (and I do mean standard-issue, not just a port). Evan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message