From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 8 01:12:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA25785 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 01:12:35 -0700 Received: from localhost.lightside.com (user57.lightside.com [198.81.209.57]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA25775 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 01:12:30 -0700 Received: (from jehamby@localhost) by localhost.lightside.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA06450; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 01:12:31 -0700 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 01:12:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@localhost To: Stephen Hocking cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java - is anyone working on this at all? In-Reply-To: <199509080401.EAA28344@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Stephen Hocking wrote: > Last I heard, it was dependent on a functional threads library, which we did > not seem to have after 1.1.5. Is anyone > > a) working on pthreads (yes, it would be nice to have this in the distribution) > > b) working on Java. > Well the latest pthreads is 1.60 beta 3, which seemed to compile cleanly enough under FreeBSD 2.0.5, although when running the verification tests, the floating point thread test failed. I will probably investigate this further. As far Java, that would be VERY interesting to see some people start working on a port of this to FreeBSD. If all it needs is a working threads library, and pthreads would be adequate to the task, why not start a porting team? The important thing is that it has to be a SERIOUS effort in order for Sun to give out the source code to HotJava, so if anyone wants to start a HotJava porting team, you can count me in... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------