Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 22:34:19 +0800 (+0800) From: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Demand for native FreeBSD Java (was: RE: OpenJIT problem) Message-ID: <200012161434.eBGEYJY26457@netrinsics.com>
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Ernst de Haan writes: >Considering the number of requests for a FreeBSD JDK from Sun, I would not be >surprised to see a 1.4 for FreeBSD within a few months after they released the >Linux version. Right now, there are 3767 votes for a official Sun FreeBSD JDK on the developer connection. However, in the last two months, only two people (besides myself) have expressed any interest at all in providing any sort of financial support for a native JDK port: http://www.cosource.com/cgi-bin/cos.pl/wish/info/380 So, basically, in the FreeBSD Java universe, there are about three people willing to do the work, about three people willing to pay for the work, and several thousand finger and toe crossers. Sun isn't going to commit any of their own resources to such a project. In the rather likely event that current conditions persist, FreeBSD will get a native 1.3 JDK sometime around mid-2002, and a 1.4 port sometime in 2003. -Michael Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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