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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2001 08:44:14 +0930
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
Cc:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'FreeBSD Java mailing list'" <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Who used jdk 1.1.8 and linux 1.2.2?
Message-ID:  <20010528084414.B31291@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010528092920.C30532@itouchnz.itouch>; from jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:29:20AM %2B1200
References:  <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9C0E@l04.research.kpn.com> <20010528092920.C30532@itouchnz.itouch>

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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
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