From owner-freebsd-java Fri Sep 1 3: 2: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72CFC37B42C for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 03:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:01:42 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26796; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:01:41 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:01:40 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Greg Lewis Cc: "Koster, K.J." , 'FreeBSD Java mailing list' Subject: Re: Unified BSD/JDK port mailing list? In-Reply-To: <20000901122643.A61498@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Greg Lewis wrote: > > I am trying to get some form of infrastructure done to support work on a > > unified BSD JDK port. The idea is to supply those who are porting Sun's JDK > > to either FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and any other platform I've forgotten > > with a single web site for status reports and such. Unless someone steps > > forward on this ... *deafening silence* ... I will take that up and > > multi-bsd my web pages. > > Good idea. I'm happy to do patchsets for the other BSDs through my site > if people would like. That provides something which has already jumped > through SCSL compliancy hoops. Alternatively I'm happy to give whatever > parts of the site people want to them. > > > On top of that, I would really like to have a single mailing list for these > > efforts, and I was wondering how much objection there is to using our Java > > mailing list for that purpose. > > No objection. Politically it might make NetBSD and OpenBSD people feel > uncomfortable though. > > > I think that we will benefit from the extra technical discussion that this > > will attract. After all, we're all BSD's and what affects one is very likely > > going to affect others. > > > > Additionally, doing this will create a sense of unity amongst the BSD Java > > porters, which in turn will look good to the outside world (read: Sun) when > > we start jumping the hoops for legality of a NetBSD and OpenBSD binary > > distribution. > > Right. > > In terms of the mailing list (and I'm happy to be the one to do this > if its thought to be a good idea) I'd like to suggest approaching Daemon > News to see if they are interested in hosting special purpose unified BSD > mailing lists such as this. Comments? Just subscribe this list to that one. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Leverage that synergy! Ooh yeah, looking good! Now stretch - and relax. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message