Experimental patchsets

Greg Lewis glewis at misty.eyesbeyond.com
Wed Jun 4 10:17:17 PDT 2003


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.

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