From owner-freebsd-java Mon Dec 3 14:38:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4038C37B419 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:38:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA11116; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:38:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB3MbxR42400; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:37:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15371.65222.492464.324372@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:37:58 -0700 To: Brad Cox Cc: andy@kksonline.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java crashes on FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: References: <5.0.2.1.0.20011203224806.02c4acc8@sundance.kks.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > As I said, installing new jdks from source is hard to impossible > because of space shortage on the freebsd server. I'd have to > unload files (via modem!) to make space. > > If some kind soul could provide a binary jre with libraries for > freebsd it would save an enormous amount of work. Only need the > jre, not the full jdk. Whatever version is most stable, 1.2 or > later. Note, at this time, it is illegal to provide a binary version of the JDK/JRE, due to Sun's licensing. Things are progressing, and I just spoke to those folks involved in the licensing issue, and we *might* be able to get a (legal) binary version released by the time 4.5 is released. (Apologies to Greg, who hasn't heard any of this yet since I just heard it myself...) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message