From owner-freebsd-java Tue Jun 5 23:47:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2FE37B403 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@misty.eyesbeyond.com) Received: from [166.70.6.52] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 157X60-0008Fd-00; Wed, 06 Jun 2001 00:47:13 -0600 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f566l7R81354; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 16:17:07 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 16:17:06 +0930 From: Greg Lewis To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Greg Lewis , Ernst de Haan , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JDK ports revisited Message-ID: <20010606161706.A81333@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20010601104331.A1730@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <20010602020059.A18838@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20010606094213.A88871@itouchnz.itouch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010606094213.A88871@itouchnz.itouch>; from jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:42:13AM +1200 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 On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:42:13AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:00:59AM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote: > > To elaborate on a previous question I had. Lets say we are suddenly able > > to distribute a binary version of the J2SDK (1.2.2 for arguments sake). > > Is the jdk12 port then replaced by the binary distribution? Would we then > > create a src-jdk12 (or somesuch) port in case people want to compile it > > from source? > > If this were to eventuate, why not have a jdk12-bin port? This is what > cvsup has in the ports-tree: > > net/cvsup-bin > net/cvsup > > The build of cvsup from source is *very* big, whereas the -bin just > installs the latest compiled binary from ftp-servers. > > We could do the same for jdkxx. This isn't a bad idea. I'd reverse it however since and add -src to the source code build version since the "normal" form for a JDK is binary. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Mobile: 0419 868 494 Information Technology Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message