status of various JDK/SDK ports?

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 12 20:55:54 UTC 2010


On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:31:17 -0800
Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 06:10:18PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > While building java/ on QAT, I see a lot of ports failing to fetch
> > or requiring manual fetch (sigh). I also see a lot of versions for
> > the same thing, some of them very old.
> > 
> > I'm on a killing spree WRT these ports, most notably
> > java/linux-sun-?dk??
> 
> All of the *jdk1[34]* ports should be killed off IMO.

Please, please :)

What about the rest? Any chance of updating them before the release?

> Anyone rely on any of these?
> 
> > If you care about them, please update them to the latest release or
> > at least point the users to a download URL that doesn't require 30
> > minutes of digging on that site.
> > 
> > Also, enter the names of the java@ members at
> > http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsTeams (please look at the other teams
> > entries for what should be there; if you already have a wiki page or
> > some other resource you can link it, but at minimum it should
> > contain the list of people behind java@).
> 
> There was a page, it just wasn't linked to the PortsTeams page.  I've
> now created that link.

Thanks.

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