On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:57, Mark Wielaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Are there any "official" GPL binaries for OpenJDK these days?
No, but I encourage Sun and encourage others to encourage Sun to provide those, at least for Linux where there is a community that cares. > If there > are it would be interesting to use these for testing against distro > produced binaries. That is the primary purpose for me - comparative testing. (For the same reason, "proprietary" JDK builds are also valuable for open source developers) > But how would be tag these builds as "official"? I'm not sure I understand the question. Here "official" means there's been some release engineering love and an expectation of a minimal level of quality. Martin
