From owner-freebsd-java Mon Jul 10 15:25:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2234A37BBB9 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA23270; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:25:26 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00487; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:25:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:25:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007102225.QAA00487@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "John Daniels" Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cliff Rowley's 'Port...' question In-Reply-To: <20000710221853.82945.qmail@hotmail.com> References: <20000710221853.82945.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Is there an ongoing effort to provide an actual 'Port' for the > > > FreeBSD JDK? If not, I'd like to make a start on one... > > >What's wrong with /usr/ports/java/jdk? > > > >What version are you referring to ? There is a production-quality > >JDK 1.1 available, and there is a beta-quality JDK 1.2, and there is > *!====================!* > >a almost-production-quality Linux JDK 1.2 (Blackdown RC4). > > > The responses to Cliff Rowley's question are somewhat disappointing. Cliff > has posted many times to this list (I counted 7 in June). No offense to Cliff, but I get 500 msgs/day, so remembering that Cliff posted 7 times in June means nothing to me. > Even if you didn't know that, and even if you didn't know that the > content of at least _some_ of his postings concerned JDK 1.2.2, > wouldn't it logically make sense that he is referring to JDK1.2.2? > JDK1.1.8 and the Blackdown 1.2.2 are already ports! Having spent close to 8 years doing FreeBSD work, I don't assume much of anything anymore. It saves alot of time and email traffic. :) > Also, did I miss an announcement? Was patchset 9 declared 'beta', or has > patchset 10 been released? (as beta? if so, I need to update from 9). Not that I'm aware of. I'm trying to get some more source code for Greg and the rest of the gang, and my house-moving project seems to have gotten in the way. :( Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message