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To: "Evan Champion" <evanc@synapse.net>
Cc: "Eivind Eklund" <eivind@yes.no>,
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Subject: Re: after the release ...
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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

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