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Date:      Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:35:56 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net>
To:        Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Host for jdk16 distfiles?
Message-ID:  <D7D418AE-8C6B-4AED-9A03-1D98B0E89C05@anduin.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081226063048.GA68710@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
References:  <20081226063048.GA68710@misty.eyesbeyond.com>

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Hi,

I have hosting facilities and resources to spare, but I could need  
help creating the click-through interface you're talking about. Can  
you be more specific about what will be required of (me/the pages)?

/Eirik

On Dec 26, 2008, at 07:30, Greg Lewis wrote:

> G'day all,
>
> As you may have noticed, Sun have removed the source files for  
> Update 3.
>
> I will contact Sun about this, but I expect they may well suggest we  
> should
> just switch to OpenJDK 6 and they have no plans for more JRL source
> releases.  While thats going on, we have two alternatives as I see it:
>
> 1. Someone could volunteer to host the source files.  To comply with  
> the
>   JRL you need to implement some kind of click through to have people
>   retrieve them.  I think this rules out me hosting them on the public
>   FreeBSD pages.
>
> 2. I could release a quick patchset which is essentially unchanged  
> except
>   that I do a diff against an earlier source release (which I notice  
> are
>   still available).  The patchset would include the changes to bring  
> that
>   source code up to Update 3, so it wouldn't matter what the source
>   version was.
>
> Comments?  Volunteers?
> -- 
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