From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 4 13:35:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA03964 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:35:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA03910 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:34:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA160520881271268; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:34:28 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id KAA29909; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:34:28 +1300 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07183; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 09:38:18 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA15636; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 09:38:18 +1300 (NZDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 09:38:17 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen Reply-To: Jonathan Chen To: "Alex.Boisvert" cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What can we do about Java? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Alex.Boisvert wrote: [snip] > What would be good is to get together a ""Team Java-FreeBSD" and > standardize on some _specific_ JDK release. This way, we can all work > together. Many people have JDK 1.1.4 in their hands now, maybe that > would be a good starting ("freeze") point? Perhaps we can wait for 1.1.5 > if it's released in early Q1'98. Waiting for 1.1.5 would be a real drag.. :-( I'd be keen on helping out with a port to 1.1.4; but looking thru' the code, there's stuff that I've never dealt before (eg: context switching stuff) and which would take me a bit of time to get up to speed on. Having someone else to discuss it with would sure make it a lot simpler. So yes, A "Team Java-FreeBSD" would be a major plus. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't want to achive immortality through my works.. I want to achieve it through not dying" - Woody Allen