patch to clean up Java 1.3 and Java 1.4 from bsd.java.mk

[René Ladan]

2011/7/7 Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com>:
> G'day René,
>
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:05:26AM +0200, René Ladan wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> I made a patch to bsd.java.mk [1] to completely remove support for
>> Java 1.3 and Java 1.4.
>> If you agree, I plan to request an exp-run with all Java 1.3 and 1.4
>> ports removed (except for
>> the -doc ports) and the ports at [2] updated to modern / non-hardcoded values.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> René
>>
>> [1] ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/freebsd/bsd.java.mk.diff
>> [2] ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/freebsd/java-blackdown.txt
>> [2] ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/freebsd/java-version.txt
>
> Thanks for doing this.  The problem I have is that the first patch removes
> all support for JAVA_VERSION < 1.5.  I had a similar patch that preserves
> this support by mapping 1.2+, 1.3+ and 1.4+ to 1.5+, much the way things
> work currently for 1.2+.  Based on java-version.txt, that's an awful lot
> of ports that need to be touched otherwise.  Were you proposing to update
> those ports at the same time as you commit your patch?
>
Yes, that is the idea because it makes things more clear.  That's why I think
of asking for an exp-run. The exp-run patch would contain removed 1.3/1.4,
updated bsd.java.mk (including Jikes removal as suggested by Herve), and
all ports in java-*.txt updated.

René