Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:14:32 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Announce: New release of JDK1.1.8 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <37E9C548.AF193572@softweyr.com> References: <199909230514.XAA18035@mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams wrote:
>
> As always it is my great pleasure to announce another release of the JDK
> for FreeBSD. We've re-released JDK1.1.8 after fixing a couple of bugs
> in the previous release.
A thousand thanks again.
> - The ELF version should work better with AWT/Swing applications. The
> FreeBSD project donated a more modern copy of Motif that should avoid
> some weird X errors that occurred previously.
Cool. Do you have an explicity references for obtaining and installing
Swing components to work with this release of JDK 1.1.8?
> Thanks again go to Keith White who's amazing debugging skills and
> knowledge provided all of the above fixes.
Thanks Keith!
> Thanks also go to the FreeBSD Project who donated a newer copy of Motif
> in order to make the more recent ELF releases more stable.
If there is something on this order of magnitude I can do to help, let
me know. Hopefully I'll see you at the Con...
> In other news, the JDK2 port has been going slowly. Because of summer
> vacations and the great weather, the developers have spent time enjoying
> non-computer things.
Damn you all! Get back to work or I'll never take you sailing! ;^)
> I expect that as the weather starts to cool down
> we'll be spending more time in front of our computer, and the JDK2
> porting effort will ramp back up.
I'll wait anxiously. Please know that your work is appreciated.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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