From owner-freebsd-java Sat Nov 6 10:54:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from msn166-109.med.und.nodak.edu (msn166-109.med.und.NoDak.edu [134.129.166.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34FAA14BFE for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 10:54:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bpederson@geocities.com) Received: from accord.med.und.nodak.edu ([134.129.166.13] helo=geocities.com) by msn166-109.med.und.nodak.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11kAyz-000FDH-00 for java@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 06 Nov 1999 12:54:38 -0600 Message-ID: <38247965.F0A895B4@geocities.com> Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 12:54:29 -0600 From: Barry Pederson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of JDK for FreeBSD? References: <19991106191715.A6091@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <0vd7tnpoqz.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> <19991106194958.A6128@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <199911061722.KAA24423@mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nate Williams wrote: > > > What I'm interested in is how Sun collaborates with FreeBSD Java > > effort, if at all. > > Sun has no reason to, because it isn't necessary for them to have > yet-another platform to compete with Solaris. Linux is done because of > market pressure, and there is virtually none from the FreeBSD user > base. (hint hint) Has anyone tried submitting an RFE/Bug similar to the one that asked for Linux support? http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4097810.html As long as Sun didn't just say they weren't going to do it and mark it closed, I'm sure we could round up a few votes for such a request. Right now, a search on the BugParade for "FreeBSD" only comes up with 10 hits, most of them not specifically relevant to FreeBSD, but two with evaluations of "This is not an environment that we support." and "This is a third party port." So it's not terribly surprising if FreeBSD isn't really showing up on their radar screens. If somebody does get something entered in to the bug parade, let us know so we can go vote for it. Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message