From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 11 10:29:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B4C37B41D for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA24758; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:29:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0BITK111298; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:29:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15423.12032.51980.615833@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:29:20 -0700 To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'Michael Lucas'" , Troy Arie Cobb , "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Java in base release as of 4.5? In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA250@l04.research.kpn.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA250@l04.research.kpn.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > BTW, I think it's "included with the release", not "part of the base." > > Slight difference there; Java is not going to be part of the core of > > FreeBSD, at least not until Sun BSDLs it. :) > > > Java will be available as a port and maybe as a package on the install CD's > as well. > > Someone (Nate?) Greg, but unfortunately we don't have access to the test suite (yet). I fired off an email to Sun earlier to try and move them along. > is working on dragging the port through the Java > compatability test suite, which is a prerequisite for distributing anything > at all. > > I'd sure the person in question can comment on timeliness for 4.5-r. I'm not > part of that cycle. It doesn't look good because of the above issue. However, you never know... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message