Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:52:12 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosehn <drosehn@rpi.edu>, Deb Goodkin <deb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Java binaries available soon! Message-ID: <442CEDBC.7060603@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <20060330200512.GB75925@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <442AE7DF.8070009@FreeBSD.org> <p0623091fc050a07d3445@[128.113.24.47]> <20060329222524.GA17861@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <442B9CBB.7040305@ebs.gr> <20060330200512.GB75925@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Greg Lewis wrote: > 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. Nah, you worry too much :-) > 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. Darn, I was afraid of that. Anyway, its easy to create the file on your own, so it's not that big a deal. Perhaps it would be helpful for novice users to have some sort of notice in the download page with the necessary command. Cheers, Panagiotishome | help
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