From owner-freebsd-java Wed Jul 10 17:34: 6 2002 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 A5F2A37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4413243E3B for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:34:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billh@gnuppy.monkey.org) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17SRuA-0000wD-00; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:33:58 -0700 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:33:58 -0700 To: Michael Gratton Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, Bill Huey Subject: Re: 1.3.1 patchset 7 not quite ready Message-ID: <20020711003358.GA3582@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA83A@l04.research.kpn.com> <20020710102904.GA3882@gnuppy.monkey.org> <1026297898.85611.13.camel@leeloo.intern.geht.de> <20020710110505.GA4071@gnuppy.monkey.org> <3D2CCE97.4080801@vee.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D2CCE97.4080801@vee.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Bill Huey 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 Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:47:27AM +0930, Michael Gratton wrote: > 5.0-RELEASE is going to be at least four months away, and the paranoid > admin in me means I'm not going to be very inclined to move my servers > from 4.x to 5.x until at least a few point releases after 5.0 comes out. > So, realistically, if HotSpot does not run on 4.x, I'm looking at 8 to > 12 months until I can use HotSpot on FreeBSD in a stable server > environment. This, of course, sucks.. The answer to that is ultimately backporting libc_r (haven't I said this before ? ;) ). It's not even close being production ready, so getting to run on a -stable machine isn't really that important since it's only good for experimentation and development at this time. bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message