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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2000 14:04:14 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Justen Stepka <jstepka@webprogrammers.net>
To:        =?utf-8?B?S29zdGVyLCBLLkou?= <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Cc:        =?utf-8?B?J01hdHRpYXMgTmlsc3Nvbic=?= <origo@spray.se>, =?utf-8?B?J0ZyZWVCU0QgSmF2YSBtYWlsaW5nIGxpc3Qn?= <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: =?utf-8?B?YnVpbGQgcHJvYmxlbXMgKHdhczogQmluYXJ5IEFscGhhIERpc3Qg?= =?utf-8?B?Pyk=?=
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This still doesn't answer why we can't get a binary version of the 1.2.2
JDK! And damn it, I want J2EE for FBSD too!

Justen Stepka
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, [utf-8] Koster, K.J. wrote:

> > 
> > I can understand that you cannot distribute a binary
> > distribution to me, we wouldn't want to go up agains
> > Sun, now would we ? :-)
> >
> I'm sure we will get plenty of opportunity when Microsoft releases C#.
> Anyone up to prove that C# is syntactic sugar by patching Sun's JDK to
> accept C# syntax? :-)
> 
> > 
> > I tried following the guidelines at
> > http://web.inter.nl.net/users/kjkoster/java/index.html
> > (as pointed out by the FreeBSD Java Project: JDK 2 page). 
> > However, it seems like the patch distribution I downloaded
> > doesn't match the JDK source  distribution I have.
> >
> There's a simple test. If you "ls -l" your JDK source tarball, it should be
> precisely 19742229 bytes. If you have any other size, I think you may have
> downloaded the wrong sources. I have just downloaded the tarball again to
> make sure, and it is still correct.
> 
> >
> > The patches I downloaded are
> > http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsd-jdk122-patches-
> > latest.tar.gz
> >
> That is correct ... euh ... Greg, I thought that people had to
> click-through-sign a license agreement and that the direct download was no
> longer available.
> 
> > 
> > This confuses me. I know what it means (from the patch 
> > manpage), but why ? My suspicion is that I have the wrong JDK
> > source distribution..
> > 
> Follow the link on my howto page, from there click on "download" for the top
> one of the three. That should give you the correct sources. Look for the
> 19MB tarball.
> 
> Let me know how it went.
> 
>     Kees Jan
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