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 -- 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
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