From owner-freebsd-java Fri Feb 23 2:30:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from heinz.jollem.com (c104187.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.104.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A9F37B491 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:30:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ernst@heinz.jollem.com) Received: (from ernst@localhost) by heinz.jollem.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1NATfX97073; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:29:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ernst) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:29:41 +0100 From: Ernst de Haan To: Bill Huey Cc: FreeBSD Java mailing list Subject: Re: Hello from BSDi's BSD/OS division ;) Message-ID: <20010223112941.A97064@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> References: <3A96177A.79D89B88@cetelem.hu> <20010223015130.A6024@gnuppy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010223015130.A6024@gnuppy>; from billh@gnuppy.monkey.org on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:51:30AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey Bill, I would just like to say that I'm glad that you're working on this, and I would really *love* to see a pthreads JDK port for FreeBSD. If there's anything I can do with my limited resources, then let me know. However, I assume this doesn't mean our own JDK 1.2.2 porting effort will halt, I remember Greg talking about a patch set 11 ? -- Ernst Bill Huey wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:13:38PM +0600, Max Khon wrote: > > While I highly appreciate the work Bill is doing I am not sure that > > binaries for FreeBSD will be available. BSDi has binary jdk 1.2.2 > > distribution for BSD/OS but is not interested in supporting FreeBSD in > > this direction. Will the situation change for jdk 1.3? Who knows... > > > > /fjoe > > Basically, some kind of interaction between both the commercial and > open source groups make a lot of sense in that pooling developer > resources from both group (and others in the BSD community) would > make a project as large as the JVM much more managable than splintered > groups. > > There's isn't too much politics on the commercial systems end since > everybody is pretty much too busy to getting their own stuff done > let alone try and help out our open source division. So I don't believe > that the inaction of not supporting FreeBSD's JVM effort was a political > decision as much as a function stemming from the lack of time. > > Most of us are fairly insanely busy on the commercial side of things. > > The 1.3.1 release of Sun's JVM could change this since I'm trying to > make an effort in getting folks on board on my own. It makes sense > in the same way that openpackages.org makes sense for all BSDs. > > Whether it's practical or not is unknown. > > ;-) > > bill > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message