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Date:      Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:01:40 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, 'FreeBSD Java mailing list' <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Unified BSD/JDK port mailing list?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GHP.4.21.0009011101180.8263-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000901122643.A61498@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au>

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On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Greg Lewis wrote:

> > I am trying to get some form of infrastructure done to support work on a
> > unified BSD JDK port. The idea is to supply those who are porting Sun's JDK
> > to either FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and any other platform I've forgotten
> > with a single web site for status reports and such. Unless someone steps
> > forward on this ... *deafening silence* ... I will take that up and
> > multi-bsd my web pages.
> 
> Good idea.  I'm happy to do patchsets for the other BSDs through my site
> if people would like.  That provides something which has already jumped
> through SCSL compliancy hoops.  Alternatively I'm happy to give whatever
> parts of the site people want to them.
> 
> > On top of that, I would really like to have a single mailing list for these
> > efforts, and I was wondering how much objection there is to using our Java
> > mailing list for that purpose.
> 
> No objection.  Politically it might make NetBSD and OpenBSD people feel
> uncomfortable though.
> 
> > I think that we will benefit from the extra technical discussion that this
> > will attract. After all, we're all BSD's and what affects one is very likely
> > going to affect others.
> > 
> > Additionally, doing this will create a sense of unity amongst the BSD Java
> > porters, which in turn will look good to the outside world (read: Sun) when
> > we start jumping the hoops for legality of a NetBSD and OpenBSD binary
> > distribution.
> 
> Right.  
> 
> In terms of the mailing list (and I'm happy to be the one to do this
> if its thought to be a good idea) I'd like to suggest approaching Daemon
> News to see if they are interested in hosting special purpose unified BSD
> mailing lists such as this.  Comments?

Just subscribe this list to that one.

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