JDK1.6 or JDK6

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Tue Aug 21 01:19:00 PDT 2007


On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:13:03AM +0300, Mario Pavlov wrote:
> Hi guys,
> As far as I know Sun switched the naming convention since JDK1.5/JDK5, these both were correct but next versions should be JDK6, JDK7, JDK8, etc..
> So I think that java/jdk1.6 should be renamed to java/jdk6
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, maybe there is a reason for the name of the port.

Check out the output of "java -version". As Greg Lewis informed me
earlier, the FreeBSD port follows the developers' version numbering,
and not Sun's marketing department's.

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