Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:19:09 +0200 From: Mark Evenson <mark.evenson@gmx.at> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removal of Java 1.1 and 1.2 support in the ports tree Message-ID: <4703345D.5020204@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <20071002211357.GA48667@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20071001100936.GA10202@rv-laptop> <fdt2av$a6g$1@sea.gmane.org> <20071002211357.GA48667@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Greg Lewis wrote: > G'day Mark, > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:17:19AM +0200, Mark Evenson wrote: > > Unless someone else comes forward saying they are using jdk11 today, I > don't see a statement of "this was useful for me 4 years ago" as being a > reason to keep an ancient version of Java around today :). Ouch. Yeah, it's reaching on my part: I just wanted to see if anyone else had maybe put this to use. [...] > > Basically, I think the removal of these ports will be going ahead unless > someone comes up with a Really Good [TM] reason not to. They're basically > just a maintenance burden at the moment. > > That being said, we're not removing the distribution files for jdk11, so > if someone desperately needs to use an 8 year old JDK they can still > download the binary, install compat3x and run it (assuming it does). Keeping the binary distribution kicking around would be more than enough for my (admittedly remotely possible) future needs. And I totally. understand wanting to remove administrative burden. -- <Mark.Evenson@gmx.at> "[T]his is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into."
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