From owner-freebsd-java Thu Jan 23 18:18:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9787737B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:18:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1448843EB2 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:18:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billh@gnuppy.monkey.org) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18btQT-0001uc-00; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:18:37 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:18:37 -0800 To: Kurt Werle Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, "Bill Huey (Hui)" Subject: Re: Native JDK? Message-ID: <20030124021837.GB7316@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <20030124015405.GB7116@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20030123180330.W87330-100000@twoface.shiftmanager.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030123180330.W87330-100000@twoface.shiftmanager.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Bill Huey (Hui) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:06:53PM -0800, Kurt Werle wrote: > Much as I dislike SUN, I gotta think they're not the only issue here. Na, Sun's cool, a bit irrelevant, they're client side stuff sucks, but they're still doing pretty snazzy things. > That sounds like it's almost really exciting. I was really excited back > pre-4.5 when that announcement was made, but now I'm just feeling > dubiously hopeful (tm). It's definitely something that's been brewing for a long time and we recently got some private help from some folks. They'll be credited for doing the work and hopefully, we can then administratively deal with what's left and then start shipping some kind of binary. > What happens next, and when can we expect it to happen? Oh, and when was > "last I heard"? Ask Greg, as a busy as he is, he should have more answers than me. I'm not sure what's going to happen since the entire development group is in hybernation at this time it seems. (cough) Muuust dooo kerrrnel work... bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message