Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 06:13:05 -0700 (PDT) From: William Cai <william.cai@yahoo.com> To: Mark Evenson <mark.evenson@gmx.at>, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of Java 1.1 and 1.2 support in the ports tree Message-ID: <485927.92179.qm@web34811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Mark, Sorry for the disturbing, but I'm really curious why we need to maintain a feature dropped in post JDK 1.1 versions. If possible, could you please show us more details? :-) Thanks, William ----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Evenson <mark.evenson@gmx.at> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 5:17:19 PM Subject: Re: Removal of Java 1.1 and 1.2 support in the ports tree Herve Quiroz wrote: > More than a month ago, JDK ports related to Java 1.1 and 1.2 were marked > DEPRECATED and scheduled for removal. This period has come to an end, > and it is now time that we remove the support for these ports in > bsd.java.mk before we delete the JDK ports themselves. I just noticed that java/jdk11 is scheduled for removal, so sorry for the late comment. I would like to add one use case for this port: compiling code that will run on the version of Java shipped with every vanilla Microsoft OS since Windows 98 (aka. "the Microsoft Virtual Machine"). Its been a number of years (2003) since I needed this (getting an Java SSH applet that will work in any cybercafe on the planet). but java/jdk11 was really the only environment where I had a chance of producing code that seemed to work reliably. Maybe I never will need to do this kind of work again, but I just wanted to mention how this port could potentially be useful outside of internal FreeBSD ports dependencies. -- <Mark.Evenson@gmx.at> "[T]his is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into." _______________________________________________ freebsd-java@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-java-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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