From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 19:25:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA12999 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:25:27 -0800 Received: from star-gate.com (hasty.vip.best.com [204.156.141.143]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA12992; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:25:24 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by star-gate.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA04562; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:19:40 GMT Message-Id: <199503291919.TAA04562@star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: star-gate.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6alpha 2/16/95 To: Dave Cornejo cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HotJava In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:08:54 PST." <199503300308.TAA18643@white.dogwood.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:19:39 +0000 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> Dave Cornejo said: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Is anyone porting Java and HotJava to FreeBSD? > > > > Dave Cornejo (dave@dogwood.com) said he was contemplating stepping forward > > for this, but I don't know the status.. Dave? > > > > Jordan > > In an email monday I was told > > 1) They're planning a major overhaul before they pass out the sources > for porting & > 2) The job is non-trivial. He was rather vague, but mumbled something > about possibly needing kernel support. > > I'll be happy to coordinate any efforts, if there are no objections, > and all help is welcome. > Again, according to the latest info I got is that Java and friends are tangled up in the legal Dept at Sun and I don't have a clue when all that is going to be cleared up. My interest is on Java itself and not so much on HotJava, the Webserver. I will be more than happy to let others handle the official port... Amancio