From owner-freebsd-java Thu Apr 26 9: 8:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D32037B42C; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:08:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@misty.eyesbeyond.com) Received: from [166.70.9.218] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14soJb-0004GD-00; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:08:24 -0600 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3QG8JU24192; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:38:19 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:38:19 +0930 From: Greg Lewis To: Nate Williams Cc: Uncle George , "Koster, K.J." , "'Greg Lewis'" , Maxim Sobolev , nate@FreeBSD.ORG, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: java for FreeBSD/alpha Message-ID: <20010427013819.A24176@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9B85@l04.research.kpn.com> <3AE80717.F5038036@voicenet.com> <15080.16624.660435.299665@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15080.16624.660435.299665@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:38:24AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:38:24AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > " this biggest problem at this moment" is the lack of a bin license to > > distribute your completed efforts. This is my opinion, of course. > > Not necessarily, since an assembly program could be used by the Linux > folks if they wished to create a Alpha binary. > > Any work the *BSD group did towards an Alpha port would not go to waste, > IMO. In addition, we could release source code patches and instructions which would allow people to get a JDK going on FreeBSD/alpha. Not as good as a binary release, but still very useful IMO. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Mobile: 0419 868 494 Information Technology Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message