From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 16 09:37:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA12050 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:37:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA11726 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:31:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA00532; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:31:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA08730; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:31:11 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:31:11 -0700 Message-Id: <199712161731.KAA08730@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: tg@award.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK port, anyone ? In-Reply-To: <19971216170851.08240@mail.award.de> References: <19971216170851.08240@mail.award.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I seem to remember somebody complaining that there was no 'real' JDK-1.1 > available for FreeBSD. As I'm also a little impaired by the lack of a 1.1 > JDK, so I was wondering if somebody was currently working on a port. Actually, there *is* a JDK1.1 port available for FreeBSD, but not a latter port. However, diffs to JDK1.1.2 were just made available, see the freebsd-java mailing list. > If not, > I might volunteer to do one. Oops, accidentally used the 'v' word :-). > However the usual lack of time, the usual work commitments etc. blah blah > mean that I would not be able to start before the end of January. I resemble that remark. :) > Before I start, I would actually like to get some answers to the following > questions: > - Is there any interest for such a port? Considering my usual state of > overworkedness, such an undertaking should make sense to more people than > just myself. I can *probably* live with using the Linux port. Of course. However, the Linux port may work much better now due to recent bugfixes in the Linuxulator. :) > - Any others that are interested in joining this effort? Sure, check out freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org > - Other comments and suggestions are welcone, of course. I'm currently building a JDK1.1.2 port using the patches posted about in the java mailing list, but it won't be distributable due to Motif licensing. I hope to somehow fix that, but it just depends on the weather. If it's snows a whole bunch then I'll be outside playing it, but if the weather is as yucky as it is now over Christmas (40 degrees and brown) then I'll probably spend more time inside. :( Nate