From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 21 18:06:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3C616A41A for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:06:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leafy7382@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9DF13C469 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:06:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leafy7382@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so1184267wra for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:06:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kExb7JRRm11wC/u7SRhjbfe0a+PA3gXnQQtUlIgFYS19HzPAggPkYjz7lWr35iVcUbQ1e9kVpsd//OkCPeOMrvYqdu4H0c3+R5nXLg2NBWlEyi0z4Romu9EoYQu5c8YLdX243bR44yy7hTVdcHmuJP0urS2Ofbzs2UIpzLc5XJI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UCn4GiRewA2IIATWxso6zfzKy7rBdiVWPobIYNnjuQEdAWdPb1JNh6K2t5GR5/W+5nrgRdl/TsjQrIWO7ohj+s6VuZbhhdRkX45PHQqwuvN5T1Q+HBHjoflLSz0YeuU6pRh2AgC8DdZJTKBjSkYN+TDE8Z2HKDV4wlFKtJo9468= Received: by 10.90.81.14 with SMTP id e14mr2498520agb.1187719581625; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:06:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.137.3 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:06:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:06:21 +0800 From: "Jiawei Ye" To: "Mario Pavlov" In-Reply-To: <1068777396.1229031187700533128.JavaMail.nobody@mail52.abv.bg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1068777396.1229031187700533128.JavaMail.nobody@mail52.abv.bg> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: JDK1.6 or JDK6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:06:27 -0000 On 8/21/07, Mario Pavlov wrote: > Hi > No offence but if this is the reason I don't think that it is very good > Java is Sun's software at all > and they are in their right to say which is the next version > In fact it's very common for the market name to sell/distribute the software > for example if the big boss from corporation X have to decide whether the corporation migrates to OS FreeBSD or OS Y to run their super/mega/ultra Java software and he'll see that FreeBSD supports the very "old" Java 1.6 but OS Y supports the very "new" Java 6, what would he decide ? :) > > It's true that name is not in critical importance for the software to work but if all other accept the name Java 6 why would FreeBSD make difference ? > > Regards > Mario Well, Solaris 9 has a different version number than just "9", I think it is both 2.9 and 5.9. Even Windows XP isn't versioned as "XP", but Windows NT 5.1 (please correct me if I am wrong). So there is a distinction between marketing brandname and the actual engineering version number. I am not saying that using JDK/JRE 6 is wrong, but in our ports context, I think using the engineering version number would be more appropriate. Just my 2 cents, Cheers, Jiawei Ye -- "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then to the end user it's a duck, and end users have made it pretty clear they want a duck; whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant."