Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 08:35:15 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <ernst.dehaan@nl.wanadoo.com> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@misty.eyesbeyond.com>, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experimental patchsets Message-ID: <200306050835.15998.ernst.dehaan@nl.wanadoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030604172238.GA25212@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20030604172238.GA25212@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Greg, What about creating -devel ports, like java/jdk13-devel ? Ernst On Wednesday 04 June 2003 19:22, Greg Lewis wrote: > Hi all, > > I've started placing more frequent "experimental" patchsets up for > download. The aim is to let people get at features and test them earlier > without the load of doing a full patchset release. It should also make > it easier for people to contribute without CVS access. However, as these > patchsets haven't been through a release cycle they aren't guaranteed to > work, the documentation is a little rough, etc. They also aren't going > to be supported in the ports system and you're expected to be able to > build things yourself. Bug reports are, of course, welcome. > > At the moment these patchsets are being built for 1.3.1 and 1.4.1 (1.2.2 > to follow soon). I expect to put these up weekly. > > For your edification, these patchsets should contain the following major > features in comparison to the current release: > > 1.3.1: > . OpenBSD support. > . HotSpot builds (on FreeBSD) with the 4.x system compiler. > > 1.4.1: > . Browser plugin support. > . NetBSD support. > > Please see the ChangeLog files for the details of who contributed these > features.
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