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Cc: Deb Goodkin <deb@freebsd.org>, Garance A Drosehn <drosehn@rpi.edu>,
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Subject: Re: Java binaries available soon!
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Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:39:08PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
>> At 1:02 PM -0700 3/29/06, Deb Goodkin wrote:
>>> Dear Java Community,
>>>
>>> We've been receiving a lot of inquiries on when the Java
>>> binaries will be available. I wanted to let people know
>>> that we will be releasing them by April 5 and hopefully
>>> sooner. ...
>> This is very good to hear!  Thanks.
>>
>> What hardware platforms will these be available for?
>> i386 only?  Maybe amd64 too?  any others?
> 
> Initially i386 only.  Notionally we could do amd64, but its a matter of
> funding and equipment to do so.  Other platforms haven't been ported to.

Which reminds me that since class data sharing works in these 
combinations (6.x/i386, 5.x/i386), it should probably be enabled by 
default in the certified binaries.

Cheers,

Panagiotis