From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 6 04:52:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C24916A402 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:52:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1962F13C474 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:52:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.0/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l264qMxe051772 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:52:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.0/8.14.0/Submit) id l264qLMd051769; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:52:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:52:21 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20070306045221.GD86959@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20070306021451.GA13455@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070306021451.GA13455@thought.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Sun, Java stuff... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:52:50 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 05), Gary Kline said: > Unless I was dreaming, I seem to recall that Sun Micro was dropping > its claims to things-Java a few weeks ago. If true, why it it still > so difficult to find the ports/packages/binaries for the Java suites > we've got? I had to google around to find the tzupdate zip file; > what was in the diablojdk15 port didn't jibe with reality. wget > failed, &c. You were probably dreaming about Sun "dropping its claims" to Java; there's no reason they would do that. They did announce in November that they "will release all unencumbered source-code modules of JDK 6 and JDK 7, along with full build scripts; a few encumbered modules will be released as binary plugins." ( http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/project_overview.jsp ) " Q: When will you finish open sourcing the JDK? What is the timeline? A: We expect to release a fully buildable JDK based almost completely on open-sourced code in the first half of 2007. " ( http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp ) As far at the timezone updates in the Diablo port, I had no problems downloading the tzupdater-1_0_1.zip file with /usr/bin/fetch. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com