getting to 5.x binary packages
Sander Vesik
sander.vesik at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 14:44:52 PDT 2004
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:04:19 -0600, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:29:01PM +0300, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > Ok, this is a sort of 'getting from A to B' question, except that I
> > dont presently have a good idea as to where 'A' is precicely ;-)
> >
> > It would be nice to have binary packages of jdk 1.4 (or 1.5 i guess,
> > but anyways) so that it could be a simple download and hopefully ship
> > with one of the 5.x releases. So could anybody tell me if :
>
> Please read the list archives.
>
> > * there is a plan (or how to get to one existing)
>
> There is indeed a plan.
Cool :)
>
> > * what the plan is
>
> The plan is to release binaries as soon as they have been tested. The
> current holdup on 4.x is simply a matter of the time it takes to do the
> testing. Hopefully soon. The hold up on 5.x is problems with the debug
> interface (see the list archives for several discussions on this). 5.x
> also currently has problems with the Server VM with gcc 3.4, but we have
> some patches that appear to fix that, they just need a little more testing.
>
Even cooler :)
> > * what other java related plans are in FreeBSD
>
> World domination! Maybe if you could be more specific about what sort of
> plans you're interested in... :).
>
Why, the world domination ones of course ;-)
> > * if thereare obvious concrete ways somebody could help
>
> Someone could find out why jdb blows up on 5.x and submit a patch to fix
> it.
>
Ok, when the 1.4.2 build on my 5.2.1 (or should I upgrde first?) completes
so I can start the OpenOffice.org builds, I'll take a look at it.
> > * what these ways would be
>
> See above.
>
Thanx
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