Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 20:45:29 +0900 (JST) From: Nate Williams <nate@nomad.mt.sri.com> To: "Evan Champion" <evanc@synapse.net> Cc: "Eivind Eklund" <eivind@yes.no>, "Robert Watson" <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, "Derek Flowers" <djflow@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us>, "Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC" <softweyr@xmission.com>, "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: after the release ... Message-ID: <199803211145.UAA08081@nomad.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <01df01bd5475$c52476d0$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net> References: <01df01bd5475$c52476d0$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net>
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> >I'm right now looking at adding support for the JAR manifest standard > >to pkg_add. The only loss I can see is that until somebody re-write > >the signing software you'll have to have Java installed to sign > >packages. I hope the amount of work to make this work should be > >feasible to have it ready over the next few days - it looks fairly > >simple. > > One could argue that it would be a good idea to leave the signing software > alone and include Java standard in 3.0-current... > > The comment on <http://www.freebsd.org/java/>; is: > > This is a pre-release version of Sun's Java Development Kit ported to > FreeBSD. It is being tested for any problems that might exist. No known > significant bugs exist at this time, but there are no guarantees of > usability. > > I think that pretty much describes 3.0-current in general so it would fit > right in :-) *laugh* > I may be alone on this, but I would certainly like to see Java as > standard-issue on FreeBSD (and I do mean standard-issue, not just a port). We can't distribute FreeBSD with the JDK legally on the CD. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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