Re: freebsd java

["matthew sporleder" <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Martin Husemann wrote:
>>
>> My subjective impression is that from a technical point of view we are
>> mostly done. There might be minor tweaks needed - and TNF is even willing
>> to pay someone completing the work.
>
> I'd love to see someone working to get Java working on NetBSD, paid or not.
> Any takers?
>
> Martin, can you outline what's left? IIRC it's
>  - fix a (very) few failed tests in the tests
>  - offer a Sun-compliant way to download binaries, i.e. make sure people
>   have to agree to some license prior to download.
>  - what else?
>
> I'm not even sure these two things are needed if we call it OpenJDK (as
> opposed to "Java".


Also interesting:
http://openports.se/devel/jdk/1.7

It seems that OpenBSD has some sort of java path documented as well.
(although it looks similar to what's happening in pkgsrc-wip)