From owner-freebsd-java Sun May 27 16:14:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D1437B422 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 16:14:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@misty.eyesbeyond.com) Received: from [166.70.7.131] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 1549jl-0001DH-00; Sun, 27 May 2001 17:14:18 -0600 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4RNEFH31330; Mon, 28 May 2001 08:44:15 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 08:44:14 +0930 From: Greg Lewis To: Jonathan Chen Cc: "Koster, K.J." , "'FreeBSD Java mailing list'" Subject: Re: Who used jdk 1.1.8 and linux 1.2.2? Message-ID: <20010528084414.B31291@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9C0E@l04.research.kpn.com> <20010528092920.C30532@itouchnz.itouch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010528092920.C30532@itouchnz.itouch>; from jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:29:20AM +1200 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 On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:29:20AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:21:49AM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > We are collecting a tremendous number of JDK's. We have 1.1.8, 1.2.2 (2x), > > 1.3.0. As soon as someone sits down to write the Makefiles for them, 1.3.1 > > and 1.4 should be added to this list. > > > > I appreciate that 1.1.8 is genuinely useful for applet development, and also > > our only official native port. I don't think it's time to pull the plug on > > it. Still I'd like to know how widely it's used. > > Since it's the only official native port, it's the only version that I > can install on our production machines. Is this a management policy? Just curious as I'm using the native 1.2.2 JDK in a production environment without any problems. > Building the 1.2-beta native is a pain due to the off-on > responsiveness of ftp servers. I'm losing hope of ever seeing a > release for this... :-( This is indeed unfortunate, but difficult to "fix" due to the licensing on the source code (i.e. it can't just be mirrored anywhere). regards, Greg -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Mobile: 0419 868 494 Information Technology Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message