Re: Java 5.0 and 6.0 in pkgsrc

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:54:55PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:23:19PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 2009/12/10 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>:
> > > Hi all,
> > > given that Sun has ended the support for JRE/JDK 1.5 a month ago, is
> > > there any point in keeping it in pkgsrc? Similar for JRE/JDK 1.4.
> > 
> > I'd be tempted to nuke 1.4 now and 1.5 sometime in the future.
> 
> You can only get JRE/JDK 1.5 now with a full registration. That's part
> of the reason I am asking about this.

I would not remove 1.5 now.

It is not too difficult to get it and not all programs work with java 6.

Bernd