From owner-freebsd-java Thu Mar 28 2:47:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from hangzone.dk (cpe.atm0-0-0-161114.0x3ef21b09.boanxx6.customer.tele.dk [62.242.27.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5D137B41A for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 02:47:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from luke.hangzone.dk (luke.hangzone.dk [192.168.1.2]) by hangzone.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F894DE; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:57:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:57:11 +0100 (CET) From: Jacob Andresen To: Brian Behlendorf Cc: Bill Huey , Subject: Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to Allow Open Source Java Implementations] In-Reply-To: <20020327221634.M1335-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> Message-ID: <20020328114700.U47000-100000@luke.hangzone.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org are there any overview on how many would be interested in doing a opensource jvm? and perhaps something that needs to be done? I would gladly be one of the "infinite amount of monkeys" let loose with a typewriter to do a opensource jvm with the whole enchilada :oP Who knows maybe we could do a useful part result? Maybe even produce "Shakepeares collected works" in the process:oP Happy easter everybody btw. greetz, zoner > > It's pretty difficult to do so because of the size of shear size of the > > JVM and because it's a moving target. > > It'd be tough to start one from scratch; I'd wager it's about the same > amount of code complexity as the GNU C toolchain today. What's more > likely is someone open sourcing an existing JVM, and putting their > existing dev resources (or enough dev resources) on it. Or throwing > their weight behind Kaffe or something like that, but more likely > releasing a new one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message