From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 26 08:09:31 2008 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 F1C7C106567A for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:09:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ltning@anduin.net) Received: from mail.anduin.net (mail.anduin.net [213.225.74.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF71B8FC36 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:09:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ltning@anduin.net) Received: from [212.62.248.146] (helo=[192.168.2.176]) by mail.anduin.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1LG7Ei-0002KJ-N7; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:35:56 +0100 Message-Id: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= To: Greg Lewis In-Reply-To: <20081226063048.GA68710@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:35:56 +0100 References: <20081226063048.GA68710@misty.eyesbeyond.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Host for jdk16 distfiles? 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: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:09:31 -0000 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? > -- > Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com > Eyes Beyond Web : http:// > www.eyesbeyond.com > Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-java@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-java- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >