Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:06:21 +0800 From: "Jiawei Ye" <leafy7382@gmail.com> To: "Mario Pavlov" <freebsd@abv.bg> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: JDK1.6 or JDK6 Message-ID: <c21e92e20708211106v1514e7b2r98e8b13f19b7421a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1068777396.1229031187700533128.JavaMail.nobody@mail52.abv.bg> References: <1068777396.1229031187700533128.JavaMail.nobody@mail52.abv.bg>
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On 8/21/07, Mario Pavlov <freebsd@abv.bg> wrote: > Hi > No offence but if this is the reason I don't think that it is very good > Java is Sun's software at all > and they are in their right to say which is the next version > In fact it's very common for the market name to sell/distribute the software > for example if the big boss from corporation X have to decide whether the corporation migrates to OS FreeBSD or OS Y to run their super/mega/ultra Java software and he'll see that FreeBSD supports the very "old" Java 1.6 but OS Y supports the very "new" Java 6, what would he decide ? :) > > It's true that name is not in critical importance for the software to work but if all other accept the name Java 6 why would FreeBSD make difference ? > > Regards > Mario Well, Solaris 9 has a different version number than just "9", I think it is both 2.9 and 5.9. Even Windows XP isn't versioned as "XP", but Windows NT 5.1 (please correct me if I am wrong). So there is a distinction between marketing brandname and the actual engineering version number. I am not saying that using JDK/JRE 6 is wrong, but in our ports context, I think using the engineering version number would be more appropriate. Just my 2 cents, Cheers, Jiawei Ye -- "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then to the end user it's a duck, and end users have made it pretty clear they want a duck; whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant."
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