Java binaries available soon!

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:54:19AM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
>> Greg Lewis wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:39:08PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
>>>> At 1:02 PM -0700 3/29/06, Deb Goodkin wrote:
>>>>> Dear Java Community,
>>>>>
>>>>> We've been receiving a lot of inquiries on when the Java
>>>>> binaries will be available. I wanted to let people know
>>>>> that we will be releasing them by April 5 and hopefully
>>>>> sooner. ...
>>>> This is very good to hear!  Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> What hardware platforms will these be available for?
>>>> i386 only?  Maybe amd64 too?  any others?
>>> Initially i386 only.  Notionally we could do amd64, but its a matter of
>>> funding and equipment to do so.  Other platforms haven't been ported to.
>> Which reminds me that since class data sharing works in these 
>> combinations (6.x/i386, 5.x/i386), it should probably be enabled by 
>> default in the certified binaries.
> 
> I just reread my response to this and thought that it sounded a little
> curt, when it was not meant to be.  Sorry about that.

Nah, you worry too much :-)

> It is too late to include the shared class data in these binaries, but
> its an excellent suggestion that we should definitely put into any
> updated packages that we end up doing.

Darn, I was afraid of that. Anyway, its easy to create the file on your 
own, so it's not that big a deal. Perhaps it would be helpful for novice 
users to have some sort of notice in the download page with the 
necessary command.

Cheers,

Panagiotis