Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:32:43 -0600 From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst++@freebsd.org> To: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> Cc: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst++@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Java support Message-ID: <CAPKkNb41k7XoAgU6WsCoKNSOwQ2fjjcJzFA-DoRTDQCpAm7OEA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20190221101815.GU2748@home.opsec.eu> References: <ddc30389-8d68-2168-700a-d66c6de90c79@ish.com.au> <20190221101815.GU2748@home.opsec.eu>
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 04:19, Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi! > > > With the Java FreeBSD mailing list pretty quiet, I thought I might ask > > here whether anyone was working on porting the latest Java versions over > > to FreeBSD. > > There's the openjdk port, java/openjdk8. > > You are asking about input from the FreeBSD community to openjdk9, 10 and > 11 ? > > > While Java 8 will be quite satisfactory for a while, the longer Java > > advances without BSD patches the harder it will be to bring across all > > the good work done for Java 8 on FreeBSD. > > This is correct. > > > Are there plans for the Foundation to sponsor some work in this area? > > Your point is, that the FreeBSD community should do regular testbuilds for > > https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk9u/ > https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk10u/ > https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk11u/ > > and provide patches if something does not build or work, right ? > > And, if necessary, fund someone to do that work ? Just looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history, it would appear that Java 9 and Java 10 are no longer supported, and, FWIIW, Java 8 is actually planned to be supported longer than Java 11, at least in the context of AdoptOpenJDK, so, there's that. C.
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