From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 24 22:44:14 2011 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 6739B1065676; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:44:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-src@helfman.org) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2203D8FC08; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:44:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iadj38 with SMTP id j38so19857338iad.13 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:44:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.77.129 with SMTP id s1mr19901800igw.25.1324766653399; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:44:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from dormouse.experts-exchange.com ([72.29.164.238]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f32sm54657593ibf.9.2011.12.24.14.44.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:44:12 -0800 (PST) Sender: Jason Helfman Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:43:38 -0800 From: Jason Helfman To: Andriy Gapon Message-ID: <20111224224338.GA89131@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> References: <201112201750.pBKHoD7P060916@freefall.freebsd.org> <20111220192549.GA58911@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> <4EF114D2.3010101@FreeBSD.org> <20111221035634.GA54362@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed In-Reply-To: <20111221035634.GA54362@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64 Organization: The FreeBSD Project, http://www.freebsd.org X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! X-PGP-FingerPrint: 8E0D C457 9A0F C91C 23F3 0454 2059 9A63 4150 D3DC X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh/jgh.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Jilles Tjoelker , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: java/163456: [patch] java/openjdk6: build and distribute open timezone data (tzdata) 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: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:44:14 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 07:56:34PM -0800, Jason Helfman thus spake: >On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 01:05:54AM +0200, Andriy Gapon thus spake: >>You don't need it installed if the building of java timezone files is done >>within a jdk port. OTOH, if java timezone data lives in a separate port, then >>it needs to be updatable independently and thus it needs some tools for the >>zoneinfo -> java tz conversion. >> >>E.g. please see some earlier deliberations on this topic which never came to >>fruition: >>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.java/11756 >>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.java/11638 >> >>Now that you have this thing going I hope that you would be interested to >>implement it as close to perfection as possible :-) >>Even if not, then what you already have is much better that the status quo. >>Thank you. >> >>P.S. Just noticed Jilles' followup, could have saved myself some typing :) >>But since this is already written then I am just hitting Send. >> > >The original stab at this is here: >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2011-December/009470.html > >This link has a shar that creates timezone data port, and replaces openjdk6 >zi distributed zoneinformation. It uses openjdk as a build dependency. >It can be re-worked to install to ${LOCALBASE}/share/java/zoneinfo, >and then have other ports link to it post-install. > >I can rename to something more appropriate like jdk-tzdata. > >Thoughts? > Is this something that could be considered for committing into the tree whilst a better long-term solution is being sought and developed so all jdk's may use it? Happy Holidays everyone! Respectively, Jason - -- Jason Helfman | FreeBSD Committer jgh@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO9lWaAAoJECBZmmNBUNPctm4H/R7EsCJfNNcfu/zoto+cU5Jf me+rS+Ttk4bMMkRoD9kxKrOMSAU6nwzFJABaNKH7lCeORcXYlTY6R9mIaDUICREk h59NWbAWNbraJ3WYr6uq0YhradKz9hyBizwjv2HiToz0tX/+PMuAvRFaTCeCE1G6 ORYZZrVp1ohgryfm6U5IMStU6WoInsQVMC8MeNAwizzlqYfkOVZdW+zqYy1tnNIA jjBT7EyB13HrKFy4tFhQnSpxGa76qysZFOC7HWQapWlANlV7xidACigRPBXkxnbl snT5b41A9Loy3HHTIkIHVSaO8nuE3gN9nuYVTumD1BaYgb1bOk+u0rGHd9hBZig= =kh6o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----