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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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