Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:42:13 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JDK ports revisited Message-ID: <20010606094213.A88871@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <20010602020059.A18838@misty.eyesbeyond.com>; from glewis@eyesbeyond.com on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:00:59AM %2B0930 References: <20010601104331.A1730@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <20010602020059.A18838@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:00:59AM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:43:31AM +0200, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> > Following is the suggested short term solution to solving the issues
> > surrounding our JDK ports. Considering the discussions we had I would like to
> > make this proposal and I would *really* like to see some feedback, either
> > positive or negative.
> [Steps snipped]
>
> I think this is a great idea FWIW.
>
> To elaborate on a previous question I had. Lets say we are suddenly able
> to distribute a binary version of the J2SDK (1.2.2 for arguments sake).
> Is the jdk12 port then replaced by the binary distribution? Would we then
> create a src-jdk12 (or somesuch) port in case people want to compile it
> from source?
If this were to eventuate, why not have a jdk12-bin port? This is what
cvsup has in the ports-tree:
net/cvsup-bin
net/cvsup
The build of cvsup from source is *very* big, whereas the -bin just
installs the latest compiled binary from ftp-servers.
We could do the same for jdkxx.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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