From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 07:53:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63E41065678; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:53:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E8E8FC0A; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.starpoint.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id JAA22045; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:53:51 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.starpoint.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1RcuWE-000J6k-S0; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:53:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4EF03F0D.1050809@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:53:49 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111206 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Helfman References: <201112192210.pBJMAEnu021127@freefall.freebsd.org> <20111220035300.GA27625@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <20111220035300.GA27625@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: java/163456: [patch] java/openjdk6: build and distribute open timezone data (tzdata) 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: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:53:54 -0000 on 20/12/2011 05:53 Jason Helfman said the following: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:10:14PM +0000, Andriy Gapon thus spake: >> Oh, I didn't mean to use the files as is. My suggestion was to create >> Java tz files from the already installed zoneinfo files. So that e.g. >> Java software and other software have the same idea of the timezones. > > > In doing some research, and testing, regarding this idea, I don't believe > this suggestion is the best route to go. > > 1) You can't build the java files based on installed zonefiles. 2) You > can't guarantee that the extracted files are going to be the latest > timezone data, and haven't been extrated before at a different release > level. 3) No port, at the moment, depends on misc/zonedata. > > In my humble opinion, it is best to handle this inside this port given the > nature of the beast that OpenJDK is, and minimize introductions of > potential variables. OK. Thank you for investigating this. And for the patch, of course. -- Andriy Gapon