Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:42:26 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua> Cc: java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] ia64/sparc64 jdk 1.5.0 ports? Message-ID: <20050119184226.GE10964@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050119142601.GA75697@phantom.cris.net> References: <20050119142601.GA75697@phantom.cris.net>
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:26:01PM +0200, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> Gentelmen,
>
> I'd like to listen about people opinion -- DO WE NEED ia64 and/or sparc64
> PORT OF JDK15 ? Please take it as little survey, and post your thoughts
> privately or to mailing list.
ia64 - no. I personally suspect that the chip is going the way of the
dinosaur.
sparc64 - *YES*. I know that one could opt to run Solaris and Sun's
JDK on it, but having a FreeBSD port would be really good to have on a
FreeBSD Tier-1 architecture.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Once is dumb luck.
Twice is coincidence.
Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something.
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