Re: JDK 1.3?

[<mshaw@mediapotential.com>]

That's an excellent idea.  Whatever the current conventional wisdom is on
Java (pseudo open source, etc), it would definitely be a significant
factor in choosing OpenBSD as a platform.  Just among people I know
locally there seems to have been an big increase in Java development.
Most of these folks opt for Solaris or Linux, but coud easily be persuaded
by the security/stability of OpenBSD if there was significant Java
support.

An OpenBSD Java subproject (even if nothing more than an email list) would
go a long way toward snagging more adopters.  While my development skills are
pretty limited, I'd be happy to provide some bandwidth/server space for
such a sub-project.

-Mike

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Christian Edward Gruber wrote:

> Actually, I was involved, and have not either gotten a first compile.  I
> temporarily put it on haiatus to try out 1.3, though I may end up back
> trying 1.2.2.
> 
> I'm out of time for the moment, but as I make progress I'll sync up.
> Perhaps we should setup a list for java on OpenBSD so that we can
> co-ordinate and partition tasks, rather than multiple people trying to do
> their own thing.  We could then possibly get somewhere with this and
> contribute back to the Java on *BSD effort.
> 
> regards,
> Christian.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Darwin" <ian@darwinsys.com>
> To: <mshaw@mediapotential.com>
> Cc: <ports@openbsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: JDK 1.3?
> 
> 
> > > I posted on misc a few days ago, but have been unable to find any up to
> > > date info in the archives.
> > >
> > > Is anyone working on a port of JDK 1.3?
> >
> > Things are starting to happen, but slowly. There is a group porting
> > 1.2.2 to several BSD's from a single set of sources. I'm the first
> > OpenBSD person to get involved with this group, and haven't yet
> > tried the first compile (it's a pretty big source tree, as you might
> imagine).
> >
> >
>