On Jul 28, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Henri Gomez wrote: >>> He means exactly what he said. JDK8 is an official product produced by >>> Oracle, and the BSD-port code will be merged into that product. So that Mac >>> OS X can become an officially supported platform. >> >> ok thanks, I wasn't aware that BSD code into JDK7 wasn't already in such >> case. > > Another question about JDK7/8, bsd-port (and so macosx-port). > What about support of processors arch like PPC and ARM via Zero project ? > Could we expect JDK7 (or may be JDK8) to have Zero Project in the mainline ?
It is not the goal of anyone at Apple to support these architectures. I am not in a position to say if anyone at Oracle is interested in doing the work for ancient PPC Macs. If someone in the community would like to put in the effort, I would suggest they speak up now. Regards, Mike Swingler Java Engineering Apple Inc.