Java binaries available soon!

[Greg Lewis]

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 can't remember if it is or isn't, but its about a month too late to make
changes either way.

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