From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 08:52:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org 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 1F9A916A41F; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:52:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from fly.ebs.gr (fly.ebs.gr [83.171.239.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C4B43D49; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:52:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from ebs.gr (root@hal.ebs.gr [10.1.1.2]) by fly.ebs.gr (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k2V8qKRV080039; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:52:20 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Received: from [10.1.1.157] (pc157.ebs.gr [10.1.1.157]) by ebs.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k2V8qM2O065053; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:52:29 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from past@ebs.gr) Message-ID: <442CEDBC.7060603@ebs.gr> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:52:12 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas Organization: EBS Ltd. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060203) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lewis References: <442AE7DF.8070009@FreeBSD.org> <20060329222524.GA17861@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <442B9CBB.7040305@ebs.gr> <20060330200512.GB75925@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <20060330200512.GB75925@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosehn , Deb Goodkin Subject: Re: Java binaries available soon! X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:52:38 -0000 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, Panagiotis