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
