> > > It will be a good thing to have openjdk available as a macport. > > There are downsides to relying on MacPorts, though. Installing a > port-installed app tends to install a whole load of other crap and, quite > often, only a subset is really required. But dependency-creep is hard to > avoid, given the way that ports handle dependencies. It would also be > obnoxious if it became hard to find binary installs. This does tend to > happen to things once they become a port and it would really not be good if > it did not happen to openjdk.... > > On the other hand, if using openjdk means that other ports that do > something that uses java may avoid installing some random set of other java > tools, that would be great. It always annoys me when I have several VMs and > ports installs the jvm it has, which I am never going to use. > > Really, I am assuming you guys are smart enough to avoid these problems. > Just saying, though. >
I'd like to get an OpenJDK 1.6 build outside Macports and with a PKG/DMG installer. I allready does it for OpenJDK 1.7 with Hudson ( http://blog.hgomez.net/?p=670) Next step for me will be to package it a installer :)
