Re: JDK 1.3?

["Christian Edward Gruber" <christian.edward.gruber@gmx.net>]

Well individual initiative is the key, so if you've got a machine, configure
a mailing list, say for openbsd-java@whereever.com and I'll whip up a quick
homepage for it.  If only I had static IP, I'd have set up the list myself
ages ago. :(

regards,
Christian.
----- Original Message -----
From: <mshaw@mediapotential.com>
To: "Christian Edward Gruber" <christian.edward.gruber@gmx.net>
Cc: <ports@openbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: JDK 1.3?


> 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).
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>