Re: Introduction and a bit of status

From: Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 13:57:11 UTC
Harald Eilertsen <haraldei@anduin.net> writes:
> I have been contracted by The FreeBSD Foundation to improve the Java
> situation on FreeBSD, mainly by making it easier to track upstream, and
> fix some long outstanding issues with the port. [...]

This is good news.  I would suggest that you prioritize switching the
default Java version, which is currently 8, to either 17 or 21.

The following PRs from back in May list ports that build with 8 but fail
to build with 17 or 21:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279424
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279425

DES
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