general questions about openjdk

[Denis Lussier]

OpenSCG already does this for the Mac with Build 16 32bit, check out
our downlaods page.
Now that Landon has gotten Build 20 working on the Mac, I will shortly
create 32bit (for 10.4+) and 64 bit (for 10.5+) Intel Mac (dmg)
Installers.

--Denis Lussier
  Founder and Chief Architect
  http://openscg.org

On 11/25/10, Henri Gomez <henri.gomez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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 :)
>