Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:43:38 -0800 From: Jason Helfman <jgh@FreeBSD.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: java/163456: [patch] java/openjdk6: build and distribute open timezone data (tzdata) Message-ID: <20111224224338.GA89131@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <20111221035634.GA54362@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>
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-----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-----
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