From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 13 10:57:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 522B537B423 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11902; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:57:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07581; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:57:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:57:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009131757.LAA07581@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Kenneth Mays" Cc: nate@yogotech.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java v1.3 JDK/JRE for FreeBSD v4.x In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Sun released the Linux version of Java v1.3 JDK/JRE as of Sept. 07, 2000. > Why can't we just use that in -current for now if not already there?!?!? 1) We are not allowed to distribute it as part of the release for legal reasons. 2) It does not work in -current. See Drew Gallatin's recent posting. > Would it take awhile to make it into -STABLE (not as open source, just as > developer tool or port/package)?? It can be a port, but it doesn't work, so it seems kind of a moot point. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message