JDK 1.5 experimental patchset available

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Fri Jan 14 17:03:53 PST 2005


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:00:55 -0700, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com>
wrote:

> All,
> 
> The first experimental patchset for JDK 1.5 is available.
> 
> http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk15.html
> 
> Please only try this out if you're pretty comfortable with compiling
> large, complex programmes yourself and want to help with testing.
> 
> Note there is no plugin or javaws support in this patchset.
> 
> Alexey has tested 5.3 quite well (i386 and amd64).  My initial tests
> on 4.10 showed some problems with graphical applications crashing.
> 
> The plan is to follow this up with patchset 1 next week, so all
> problem reports are appreciated.
> 
> Also, a big thanks to Alexey for all his work getting this going.

Oh, wow!  AMD 64, too?  Awesome!

You guys are amazing!  :-)

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"


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