From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 21:44:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779FB16A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:44:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17FC643D41 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:44:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sander.vesik@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 75so579317rnk for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.152.68 with SMTP id z68mr2669034rnd; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.102.19 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:44:51 +0300 From: Sander Vesik To: Greg Lewis In-Reply-To: <20041013210419.GA95485@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041013210419.GA95485@misty.eyesbeyond.com> cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting to 5.x binary packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sander Vesik List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:44:52 -0000 On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:04:19 -0600, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:29:01PM +0300, Sander Vesik wrote: > > Ok, this is a sort of 'getting from A to B' question, except that I > > dont presently have a good idea as to where 'A' is precicely ;-) > > > > It would be nice to have binary packages of jdk 1.4 (or 1.5 i guess, > > but anyways) so that it could be a simple download and hopefully ship > > with one of the 5.x releases. So could anybody tell me if : > > Please read the list archives. > > > * there is a plan (or how to get to one existing) > > There is indeed a plan. Cool :) > > > * what the plan is > > The plan is to release binaries as soon as they have been tested. The > current holdup on 4.x is simply a matter of the time it takes to do the > testing. Hopefully soon. The hold up on 5.x is problems with the debug > interface (see the list archives for several discussions on this). 5.x > also currently has problems with the Server VM with gcc 3.4, but we have > some patches that appear to fix that, they just need a little more testing. > Even cooler :) > > * what other java related plans are in FreeBSD > > World domination! Maybe if you could be more specific about what sort of > plans you're interested in... :). > Why, the world domination ones of course ;-) > > * if thereare obvious concrete ways somebody could help > > Someone could find out why jdb blows up on 5.x and submit a patch to fix > it. > Ok, when the 1.4.2 build on my 5.2.1 (or should I upgrde first?) completes so I can start the OpenOffice.org builds, I'll take a look at it. > > * what these ways would be > > See above. > Thanx > -- > Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com > Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com > Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org >