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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Greg Lewis wrote:

> The state is that noone has been able to devote the time and equipment
> to running the newer JDKs through the test suites which is a prerequisite
> for releasing a binary.  Once someone has the time and equipment to do
> so a new binary package will be released.

What's involved in doing this?  I've got some hardware that isn't busy. 
Are the tests automated?  Can you elaborate on what's involved and how I 
(and/or others) can help?

    Nick