From owner-freebsd-java Thu Jun 27 10:34:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mgr3.xmission.com (mgr3.xmission.com [198.60.22.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E2337B415 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail by mgr3.xmission.com with spam-scanned (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17Nd9P-0005gY-00; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:33:47 -0600 Received: from [207.135.128.145] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr3.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17Nd9O-0005g0-00; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:33:47 -0600 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5RHXci33257; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 03:03:38 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 03:03:38 +0930 From: Greg Lewis To: Jan Grant Cc: Greg Lewis , Dylan Carlson , Bill Huey , freebsd-java Subject: Re: A Call to Action for freebsd-java... Message-ID: <20020628030337.B33080@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20020628005115.A32492@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:58:03PM +0100 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=8.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.31 X-Spam-Level: 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, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:58:03PM +0100, Jan Grant wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Greg Lewis wrote: > > > I can't just post > > the tests themselves for obvious reasons. > > This is a real problem; as I understand it (and my understanding may be > flawed, or somewhat out of date) Sun _still_ haven't released* a > conformance testing kit, which basically means work has to be indirected > through the one person brave enough to have sold their soul to Sun :-( > > * ie, made publicly and generally available Right, the JCK suite is only available to Sun licensees. Its not a huge problem, it just means I have to construct some code to demonstrate the failures rather than being able to just post the test. Having said that, you are correct in that it does mean all the testing work must currently go through one person, which _is_ a problem in that it make me a bottleneck :(. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message