Why diablo-jdk?

[Ivan Voras]

Rick C. Petty wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:08:22PM +0930, Wayne Sierke wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 13:02 +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote:
>>> It seems that many (if not most) posts to this list concern the 
>>> Diablo version of jdk.
>>>
>>> Is there some particular merit in using this in preference to the
>>> regular FreeBSD port -- say jdk16?
>>>
>>> Your comment is welcome,
>>> Malcolm
>> I've been meaning to pose a related question.
>>
>> Why is it that in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.java.Mk java/diablo-jdk15 is
>> preferred over java/jdk16? In fact the order of preference seems to be:
>> diablo-jdk16, diablo-jdk15, openjdk6 then jdk16 ...
> 
> I believe it's because building the non-diablo JDKs takes a significant
> amount of time and drive space.  Most people don't want the hassle of
> compiling a JDK, especially since you need to bootstrap it with another
> JDK.  It's a classic chicken and egg problem.  I think this way satisfies
> more people.

Isn't there also something about diablo being put through Sun's 
implementation/regression tests to be able to be distributed by the 
Foundation?

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