Re: plea for a Windows build

2011-08-30 Thread Ismael Juma
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Thanks for the link, Ismael. The "official possition" and estimated > ETA is what I was looking for Sure. For whatever it's worth, I would imagine that the Eclipse people got their information from an Oracle person. So, while you wait for

Re: plea for a Windows build

2011-08-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 05:31, Ismael Juma wrote: > I read in an Eclipse status update that it would be out in October > (Eclipse uses Lucene for its Help component and suffers from the > highly publicised bug). Not sure if that is the official position > though. Thanks for the link, Ismael. The

Re: plea for a Windows build

2011-08-30 Thread Ismael Juma
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Speaking of bleeding edge. Is there an ETA for java7 update 1 ? You > know, to shut up all those "Java 7 is broken, don't use it" > naysayers... I read in an Eclipse status update that it would be out in October (Eclipse uses Lucene for it

Re: plea for a Windows build

2011-08-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 18:11, Dalibor Topic wrote: > If you want the bleeding edge of hostpot Speaking of bleeding edge. Is there an ETA for java7 update 1 ? You know, to shut up all those "Java 7 is broken, don't use it" naysayers... TIA... FC ___ ml

Re: plea for a Windows build

2011-08-30 Thread Charles Lee
On 08/28/2011 04:17 AM, Chuck Remes wrote: > I'd like to help Charlie Nutter out with testing some of the new > invokedynamic support for the JVM on Windows. I hear that the latest fixes > (which folks on this list have produced) are *not* part of the openjdk > repository and are stored elsewher

Re: plea for a Windows build

2011-08-27 Thread Dalibor Topic
On 8/27/11 10:17 PM, Chuck Remes wrote: >I hear that the latest fixes (which folks on this list have produced) are >*not* part of the openjdk repository and are stored elsewhere. You likely heard wrong. If you want the bleeding edge of hostpot, see for example https://twitter.com/#!/headius/stat

plea for a Windows build

2011-08-27 Thread Chuck Remes
I'd like to help Charlie Nutter out with testing some of the new invokedynamic support for the JVM on Windows. I hear that the latest fixes (which folks on this list have produced) are *not* part of the openjdk repository and are stored elsewhere. While researching the steps necessary to build