Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:52:21 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sun, Java stuff... Message-ID: <20070306045221.GD86959@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20070306021451.GA13455@thought.org> References: <20070306021451.GA13455@thought.org>
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In the last episode (Mar 05), Gary Kline said: > Unless I was dreaming, I seem to recall that Sun Micro was dropping > its claims to things-Java a few weeks ago. If true, why it it still > so difficult to find the ports/packages/binaries for the Java suites > we've got? I had to google around to find the tzupdate zip file; > what was in the diablojdk15 port didn't jibe with reality. wget > failed, &c. You were probably dreaming about Sun "dropping its claims" to Java; there's no reason they would do that. They did announce in November that they "will release all unencumbered source-code modules of JDK 6 and JDK 7, along with full build scripts; a few encumbered modules will be released as binary plugins." ( http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/project_overview.jsp ) " Q: When will you finish open sourcing the JDK? What is the timeline? A: We expect to release a fully buildable JDK based almost completely on open-sourced code in the first half of 2007. " ( http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp ) As far at the timezone updates in the Diablo port, I had no problems downloading the tzupdater-1_0_1.zip file with /usr/bin/fetch. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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