Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:30:12 +1030 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <g.w.k@web.de> Cc: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua>, Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jdk 1.4.1 patchset2 is coming ... Message-ID: <20030204153012.A14769@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <1044312220.281.15.camel@bat.localnet>; from g.w.k@web.de on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:43:27PM %2B0100 References: <20030203134010.A69472@phantom.cris.net> <20030204012148.A23926@iclub.nsu.ru> <20030203213233.A72514@phantom.cris.net> <1044312220.281.15.camel@bat.localnet>
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:43:27PM +0100, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: > What does this mean for the -current branch? Has the libc_r stuff been > included in 5.0-R, or will I need to CVSup to current -current? Its not in 5.0-R. You'll either need to patch your libc_r (patch is included in the patchset) or CVSup to CURRENT. > P.S.: Hey guys I am just upgrading my -stable system to 5.0-R *because* > JDK1.4 was reported not to run well on -stable. Now you announce you > have done all further porting work on -stable and only lightly tested on > -current. Grumble. > > A while earlier, last year, I ran -current because billh did all of his > HotSpot work on -current. Then I converted to -stable as life in > -current became too hot (too much work, I mean) to me and as the libc_r > patches for HotSpot had been backported. > > I feel like chasing a permanent current-stable-current-stable spiral of > Java development in FreeBSD. Shouldn't we all agree on *one* primary os > branch for Java, announce that, and stick with it? FreeBSD support has _always_ been targeted at STABLE. CURRENT is too much of a moving target plus many of the team don't have a CURRENT system to test on. That said, of necessity some of the bleeding edge port features initially rely on bleeding edge FreeBSD support. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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