On 11/26/10 3:54 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 11/26/2010 02:48 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>> Hm. It's been a long time since I heard of anyone use the binary plugs for >> anything. >> Certainly neither regular OpenJDK builds nor IcedTea builds do. So if they >> just serve >> to confuse people to assume they are in some way necessary, maybe we should >> just remove >> them from the download site for good. >> >> Any objections? > > Why bother? People sometimes want to check out and build old versions. Constant one time effort that saves non-constant amount of time down the road answering questions about binary plugs, as well as time & space spent generating them, and so on. cheers, dalibor topic -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Dalibor Topic | Java F/OSS Ambassador Phone: +494023646738 <tel:+494023646738> | | | Mobile: +491772664192 <tel:+491772664192> Oracle Java Platform Group ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment
