Re: JDK 1.3?

[<mshaw@mediapotential.com>]

Sounds like a plan.  I'll see about getting one up by next week.  I'm a
little slammed but it should be doable.  I can also provide some webspace.

-Mike

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

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