general questions about openjdk

[Henri Gomez]

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>
> It will be a good thing to have openjdk available as a macport.
>
> There are downsides to relying on MacPorts, though. Installing a
> port-installed app tends to install a whole load of other crap and, quite
> often, only a subset is really required. But dependency-creep is hard to
> avoid, given the way that ports handle dependencies. It would also be
> obnoxious if it became hard to find binary installs. This does tend to
> happen to things once they become a port and it would really not be good if
> it did not happen to openjdk....
>
> On the other hand, if using openjdk means that other ports that do
> something that uses java may avoid installing some random set of other java
> tools, that would be great. It always annoys me when I have several VMs and
> ports installs the jvm it has, which I am never going to use.
>
> Really, I am assuming you guys are smart enough to avoid these problems.
> Just saying, though.
>

I'd like to get an OpenJDK 1.6 build outside Macports and with a PKG/DMG
installer.

I allready does it for OpenJDK 1.7 with Hudson (
http://blog.hgomez.net/?p=670)

Next step for me will be to package it a installer :)
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