Experimental patchsets

[Ernst de Haan]

Greg,

What about creating -devel ports, like java/jdk13-devel ?

Ernst


On Wednesday 04 June 2003 19:22, Greg Lewis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've started placing more frequent "experimental" patchsets up for
> download. The aim is to let people get at features and test them earlier
> without the load of doing a full patchset release.  It should also make
> it easier for people to contribute without CVS access.  However, as these
> patchsets haven't been through a release cycle they aren't guaranteed to
> work, the documentation is a little rough, etc.  They also aren't going
> to be supported in the ports system and you're expected to be able to
> build things yourself.  Bug reports are, of course, welcome.
>
> At the moment these patchsets are being built for 1.3.1 and 1.4.1 (1.2.2
> to follow soon).  I expect to put these up weekly.
>
> For your edification, these patchsets should contain the following major
> features in comparison to the current release:
>
> 1.3.1:
> 	. OpenBSD support.
> 	. HotSpot builds (on FreeBSD) with the 4.x system compiler.
>
> 1.4.1:
> 	. Browser plugin support.
> 	. NetBSD support.
>
> Please see the ChangeLog files for the details of who contributed these
> features.