I've replied to Magnus separately on the freebsd-java mailing list. This
is great and I'd love to see it in either the jdk9 mainline or the bsd-port
repo of jdk9.
The big barrier has always been the volunteer effort required to get past
the TCK and fix whatever relatively non-mainstream bugs that
Hi Magnus,
I am just an observer here but good work. I have been on this list for a
long time because of my interest in MacOSX and that port so I naturally
thought that BSD would become part of mainline Java too. More platforms for
Java is better. Because of your work I took a look at BSD and the
On 20.01.2016 22:17, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
A reflection, though: If the requirement for such a
port is that a company provides continuous testing and support, then I
believe it's unlikely that any BSD port will ever reach the mainline,
due to the community based nature of the BSD projects.
Hi Magnus,
for what it is worth, I like your effort and think this is valuable.
Looking through your changes, it looks like the current BSD support
(non-apply) is broken in a number of places and I think if we keep it, we
should fix it.
Disclaimer: I am neither a "R"eviewer nor a BSD expert. Beca
On 2016-01-20 13:06, David Holmes wrote:
On 20/01/2016 9:15 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 20/01/2016 10:54, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
During my spare time last autumn, and in the holidays, I've been
playing around with the three major BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and
NetBSD), trying to learn something n
On 20/01/2016 9:15 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 20/01/2016 10:54, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
During my spare time last autumn, and in the holidays, I've been
playing around with the three major BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and
NetBSD), trying to learn something new. (Yeah, I know, this proves
that I have
On 20/01/2016 10:54, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
During my spare time last autumn, and in the holidays, I've been
playing around with the three major BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and
NetBSD), trying to learn something new. (Yeah, I know, this proves
that I have no life :-)).
And what better way to le
On 2016-01-20 11:54, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
During my spare time last autumn, and in the holidays, I've been
playing around with the three major BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and
NetBSD), trying to learn something new. (Yeah, I know, this proves
that I have no life :-)).
And what better way to le
During my spare time last autumn, and in the holidays, I've been playing
around with the three major BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD), trying
to learn something new. (Yeah, I know, this proves that I have no life :-)).
And what better way to learn an operating system than to try and build
Op
