Removal of Java 1.1 and 1.2 support in the ports tree

Mark Evenson mark.evenson at gmx.at
Tue Oct 2 03:11:34 PDT 2007


Herve Quiroz wrote:

> More than a month ago, JDK ports related to Java 1.1 and 1.2 were marked
> DEPRECATED and scheduled for removal. This period has come to an end,
> and it is now time that we remove the support for these ports in
> bsd.java.mk before we delete the JDK ports themselves.

I just noticed that java/jdk11 is scheduled for removal, so sorry for 
the late comment.

I would like to add one use case for this port:  compiling code that 
will run on the version of Java shipped with every vanilla Microsoft OS 
since Windows 98 (aka. "the Microsoft Virtual Machine").  Its been a 
number of years (2003) since I needed this (getting an Java SSH applet 
that will work in any cybercafe on the planet). but java/jdk11 was 
really the only environment where I had a chance of producing code that 
seemed to work reliably.

Maybe I never will need to do this kind of work again, but I just wanted 
to mention how this port could potentially be useful outside of internal 
FreeBSD ports dependencies.

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