binary release

[Greg Lewis]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:30:43AM +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> Congratulations to everyone who made this possible, it seems that JDK 
> 1.3.1 has been released as binary:
> 
> http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20030825-java131.shtml
> 
> I have a question. Is the binary release the same as the 1.3.1p8_2 
> port? If I have that installed on a production server should I be 
> looking at upgrading to the binary?

Its almost the same.  If anything, 1.3.1p8_2 is slightly more up to date,
but the differences are very minor.

> I am also curious; the release said
> 
> > "The Foundation is now financing efforts to accelerate the completion 
> of [JDK 1.4.1]."
> 
> Does that mean that there are programmers being paid for their skills 
> to complete this? Who are they? Personally I think it is great that 
> money can be found to implement such core functionality in 
> non-glamorous areas of FreeBSD, and make sure that someone works on it 
> other than in their spare time between midnight and 3am. I hope Sun is 
> contributing to this effort.

There was an announcement regarding this some time back.  You can probably
find it if you look through the archives :).  Otherwise I'll let the
people in question speak up.

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