Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:35:56 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Host for jdk16 distfiles? Message-ID: <D7D418AE-8C6B-4AED-9A03-1D98B0E89C05@anduin.net> In-Reply-To: <20081226063048.GA68710@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20081226063048.GA68710@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Hi, I have hosting facilities and resources to spare, but I could need help creating the click-through interface you're talking about. Can you be more specific about what will be required of (me/the pages)? /Eirik On Dec 26, 2008, at 07:30, Greg Lewis wrote: > G'day all, > > As you may have noticed, Sun have removed the source files for > Update 3. > > I will contact Sun about this, but I expect they may well suggest we > should > just switch to OpenJDK 6 and they have no plans for more JRL source > releases. While thats going on, we have two alternatives as I see it: > > 1. Someone could volunteer to host the source files. To comply with > the > JRL you need to implement some kind of click through to have people > retrieve them. I think this rules out me hosting them on the public > FreeBSD pages. > > 2. I could release a quick patchset which is essentially unchanged > except > that I do a diff against an earlier source release (which I notice > are > still available). The patchset would include the changes to bring > that > source code up to Update 3, so it wouldn't matter what the source > version was. > > Comments? Volunteers? > -- > Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com > Eyes Beyond Web : http:// > www.eyesbeyond.com > Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-java@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-java- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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