From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 20:05:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E20116A424; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:05:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (c-24-16-180-74.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [24.16.180.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F58B43D48; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:05:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (localhost.eyesbeyond.com [127.0.0.1]) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k2UK5PJZ076010; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:05:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id k2UK5Cfp076009; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:05:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:05:12 -0700 From: Greg Lewis To: Panagiotis Astithas Message-ID: <20060330200512.GB75925@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <442AE7DF.8070009@FreeBSD.org> <20060329222524.GA17861@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <442B9CBB.7040305@ebs.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <442B9CBB.7040305@ebs.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Deb Goodkin , Garance A Drosehn , freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java binaries available soon! X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:05:45 -0000 On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:54:19AM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > Greg Lewis wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:39:08PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > >>At 1:02 PM -0700 3/29/06, Deb Goodkin wrote: > >>>Dear Java Community, > >>> > >>>We've been receiving a lot of inquiries on when the Java > >>>binaries will be available. I wanted to let people know > >>>that we will be releasing them by April 5 and hopefully > >>>sooner. ... > >>This is very good to hear! Thanks. > >> > >>What hardware platforms will these be available for? > >>i386 only? Maybe amd64 too? any others? > > > >Initially i386 only. Notionally we could do amd64, but its a matter of > >funding and equipment to do so. Other platforms haven't been ported to. > > Which reminds me that since class data sharing works in these > combinations (6.x/i386, 5.x/i386), it should probably be enabled by > default in the certified binaries. I just reread my response to this and thought that it sounded a little curt, when it was not meant to be. Sorry about that. It is too late to include the shared class data in these binaries, but its an excellent suggestion that we should definitely put into any updated packages that we end up doing. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org