Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:58:51 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sun, Java stuff... Message-ID: <20070306055851.GA42078@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20070306045221.GD86959@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20070306021451.GA13455@thought.org> <20070306045221.GD86959@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:52:21PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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." Okay, I should said that I understood that Java was going to be made "more open." I'd like to see things-Java wipe out the flash and shockwave 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 ) Thanks for the URL; I'll check it out. Four months to go. > > > 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. > It wasn't on the ftp site listed in the port; I finally found the latest zip on my Sun acct. --At least it'll be useful on all four of my sites. > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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