Pushing for default jdk / jre to become java/diablo-j{dk,re}
Gary Kline
kline at tao.thought.org
Sat Mar 17 21:28:41 UTC 2007
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:24:37PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hello all,
> I was just wondering if there was any way where we -- as a group --
> could push to make the default jdk / jre the diablo packaged versions
> because frankly I don't want a system to assume that I want to compile
> the 1.5 jdk / jre from scratch by first installing the linux v1.4.2 of
> the jdk, and having to go through the long and arduous process of
> compiling java, for little or no benefit (the only benefit would be for
> different architectures that aren't available in diablo-jdk/-jre, like
> sparc, powerpc). In that case one would be required to do the above process.
>
> It would be nice to add this in though so someone doesn't
> accidentally take all that time and disk space compiling all for naught.
>
I agree++, but whom do we ``push''? AFAIK, we [FreeBSD users]
are pretty much a collection of volunteers albeit with some
$$$ contribs. Do we have a (barf) "Decider"!?
gary
> Thanks,
> -Garrett
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