OpenSCG already does this for the Mac with Build 16 32bit, check out our downlaods page. Now that Landon has gotten Build 20 working on the Mac, I will shortly create 32bit (for 10.4+) and 64 bit (for 10.5+) Intel Mac (dmg) Installers.
--Denis Lussier Founder and Chief Architect http://openscg.org On 11/25/10, Henri Gomez <henri.go...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> 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 :) >
