The OpenJDK6 port should remove the WEB option to avoid confusion

[Maho NAKATA]

Hi Kurt Miller and Brian Gardner
I just removed WEB option. Please check it.
Thank you.

From: Brian Gardner <brian at experts-exchange.com>
Subject: Re: The OpenJDK6 port should remove the WEB option to avoid confusion
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:04:32 -0800

> Let's remove the option for now.  Perhaps we can port the icedtea
> plugin and webstart at a later date and re-introduce it.
>
> Brian
>
> Maho NAKATA wrote:
>> Hello Brian,
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> From: Kurt Miller <lists at intricatesoftware.com>
>> Subject: Re: OpenJDK6 and NetBeans: Who can use non-English fonts on
>> NetBeans?
>> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:03:14 -0500
>>
>>
>>> OpenJDK (6 or 7) doesn't yet come with a plugin or webstart. It is not
>>> clear if Sun will ever release them under GPL. The last semi-offical
>>> statement is here:
>>>
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2008-September/001283.html
>>>
>>> The OpenJDK6 port should remove the WEB option to avoid confusion.
>>>
>>> I believe that the lack of the plugin will prevent OpenJDK6 from
>>> building OpenOffice. :( Perhaps the approach Fedora took might work
>>> for a plugin replacement. See 16.3 for a description:
>>>
>>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Java.html
>>>
>>> It mentions the lack of support for LiveConnect. If I'm not mistaken
>>> that is need for the plugin to work in Firefox (memory rusty on this
>>> one). However it may be good enough to allow OpenJDK6 to build
>>> OpenOffice.
>>>
>>
>> -- Nakata Maho http://accc.riken.jp/maho/ , http://ja.openoffice.org/
>>    Nakata Maho's PGP public keys: http://accc.riken.jp/maho/maho.pgp.txt
>>
>
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