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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:49:14PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> ok, i've recently gotten into toying with java, and i have the question o=
f:
>=20
> is running java going to happen for port-macppc?  i've got plenty of Sola=
ris
> boxes here to run it on, or will once i get them setup, and in the
> meantime, i would like to do some devel work on my mac.
>=20
> is this reasonable?  does java even work well on NetBSD?  the source code=
 *is*
> available, does sun include enough to build a working Java from it?  would
> porting be something i might want to look at for the good of NetBSD?  all=
 the
> "best" jdk stuff seems to be linux that we are running via compat.

The main issue is that Sun doesn't allow redistribution of Java, except=20
with permission. They have previously not considered requests to permit=20
Java releases for NetBSD, so we end up using ones from Linux.

Take care,

Bill

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