From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 08:49:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE1116A41F for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:49:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-java@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8685C13C47E for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:49:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-java@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ICtbt-0007pe-LD for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:49:45 +0200 Received: from 69.31.82.90 ([69.31.82.90]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:49:45 +0200 Received: from mark.evenson by 69.31.82.90 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:49:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org From: Mark Evenson Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:49:35 +0200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.31.82.90 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070606) Sender: news Subject: java/jdk16 testing possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:49:48 -0000 It looks like their is an imminent public release [1] of the start of a Java 6 port. Any way I could get an (unsupported) download of the current ports files? Last week, a project introduced an unexpected (and unwanted) dependency on Java 6 which is (obviously) unsupportable on my FreeBSD servers at the moment (my work is "research" and not production, so "just running" is often quite enough for my needs). I would like to spend a little time with the provisional java6 port to see if I can plausibly use it by the end of August. I would not take the private release of the ports files as a promise of support or timeliness in any manner. I simply want to see if it would be at all plausible to use java/jdk16 in the near future on FreeBSD in its current state. Or if I should break out the OpenSolaris DVD. . . Thanks for any reply, [1]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114510 -- "[T]his is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into."