openjdk8

[Brian Gardner]

It seems like there are fewer patches in openjdk8 than there were in openjdk7, but there are still quite a few though.  I initially ported openjdk6 over the freebsd four or five years ago, and this port was much easier than that one.

Brian

On Mar 12, 2014, at 11:23 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <ari at ish.com.au> wrote:

> Thanks for your work on this. It is much appreciated. Out of interest, now that OSX is a first tier Oracle supported platform, does that make it any easier to port?
> 
> Shame that FreeBSD support isn't an integral part of Oracle's release process.
> 
> Ari
> 
> On 13/03/2014 12:17pm, Brian Gardner wrote:
>> I'm working on a port with Greg.  It's in its early stages though.  It's current state is that it compiles and passes all but 5 of the hotspot jtreg tests.  We are looking at getting the port into version control soon.  Once in there we will set it up for testing.
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> On Mar 10, 2014, at 2:20 AM, Aristedes Maniatis <ari at ish.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there a port or package somewhere in testing which I can use for early evaluation of Java 8? I'd like to set up some java 8 environments on our test server. All I found was:
>>> 
>>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.hotspot.devel/7697
>>> 
>>> but no real followup since 2012. With the final Java 8 release in a week or two I'd like to get a headstart on my customers for ensuring there isn't going to be a problem.
>>> 
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