From owner-freebsd-java Mon May 28 13:56:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1936237B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 13:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4SKtgs15371; Tue, 29 May 2001 08:55:42 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 08:55:42 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Greg Lewis Cc: "'FreeBSD Java mailing list'" Subject: Re: Who used jdk 1.1.8 and linux 1.2.2? Message-ID: <20010529085542.B13807@itouchnz.itouch> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9C0E@l04.research.kpn.com> <20010528092920.C30532@itouchnz.itouch> <20010528084414.B31291@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010528084414.B31291@misty.eyesbeyond.com>; from glewis@eyesbeyond.com on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:44:14AM +0930 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 Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:44:14AM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:29:20AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:21:49AM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > We are collecting a tremendous number of JDK's. We have 1.1.8, 1.2.2 (2x), > > > 1.3.0. As soon as someone sits down to write the Makefiles for them, 1.3.1 > > > and 1.4 should be added to this list. > > > > > > I appreciate that 1.1.8 is genuinely useful for applet development, and also > > > our only official native port. I don't think it's time to pull the plug on > > > it. Still I'd like to know how widely it's used. > > > > Since it's the only official native port, it's the only version that I > > can install on our production machines. > > Is this a management policy? Just curious as I'm using the native 1.2.2 > JDK in a production environment without any problems. Sort of. They want to have something that's readily installable. If I can get the build to *complete* the second time, I could possibly make a package for jdk1.2beta, and that should satisfy them.. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Power corrupts, Absolute Power is pretty neat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message