diablo-jdk not installing correctly

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Mon Apr 26 00:57:55 UTC 2010


On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 07:34:19PM -0400, herbey zepeda wrote:

[...]
> I am concerned because according to the literature diablo is supposed to
> be the maintained jdk for FreeBSD. And I realize that I am having to
> download version 7.1 when we are already on version 8.0 of FreeBSD to make
> java work
> 
> My question is: is Java in FreeBSD an experimental/academic package? Should
> I rather go with the linux compatibility way?

There has been no movement with the diablo-jdk for ages; java/openjdk6
is better maintained and would be a better choice.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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