Aren't the binary plugs still used for vanilla OpenJDK 6 builds that don't use Iced Tea?? I know I had to set them up in the OpenSCG build farm for Windoze and Linux, last year when I started with Build 16, and they are still there but perhaps are unneeded. I also have the messy/scary/confusing add-on verbage in the license for the one click-installers explaining why it all ain't pure GPL v2.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 11/26/2010 02:48 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > On 11/25/10 3:15 AM, kevin diggs wrote: > >> The section of the page: > >> > >> http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk7/ > >> > >> for downloading has a heading that says: > >> > >> Linux platform > >> > >> If this is for x86 only then please label it as such (more than having > >> i586 buried in the file/link name). > >> > >> Linux actually runs on quite a lot of different hardware (I got me an > >> ultra2 that can run Linux; a bunch of PowerMacs too. Even a DEC Alpha. > >> That would be a real hoot getting a JDK on that thing. Oh I forgot > >> about the 040 based Quadra 700.). > >> > >> Sorry for the rant. But this kinda pushes my buttons. > > > > 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. > > Andrew. >
