Removal of Java 1.1 and 1.2 support in the ports tree

[William Cai]

Mark,
Sorry for the disturbing, but I'm really curious why we need to maintain a feature dropped in post JDK 1.1 versions. If possible, could you please show us more details? :-)

Thanks, William

----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Evenson <mark.evenson at gmx.at>
To: freebsd-java at freebsd.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 5:17:19 PM
Subject: Re: Removal of Java 1.1 and 1.2 support in the ports tree

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.

-- 
<Mark.Evenson at gmx.at>

"[T]his is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into."

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