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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:57:27 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        herbey zepeda <zepedaherbey@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: diablo-jdk not installing correctly
Message-ID:  <20100426005727.GA14128@osiris.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <v2u49856ef1004251634hf5f83489j4cf0db1b5558e917@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <v2u49856ef1004251634hf5f83489j4cf0db1b5558e917@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 07:34:19PM -0400, herbey zepeda wrote:

[...]
> I am concerned because according to the literature diablo is supposed to
> be the maintained jdk for FreeBSD. And I realize that I am having to
> download version 7.1 when we are already on version 8.0 of FreeBSD to make
> java work
> 
> My question is: is Java in FreeBSD an experimental/academic package? Should
> I rather go with the linux compatibility way?

There has been no movement with the diablo-jdk for ages; java/openjdk6
is better maintained and would be a better choice.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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