OpenJDK Binary

[Martijn Verburg]

Frans,

We only just started discussing all of this at FOSDEM.  Some patience
please :).

We will begin by clearly linking in the various community efforts from the
OpenJDK site and wiki.

Cheers,
Martijn

On Saturday, 11 February 2012, Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org> wrote:
> mmm :) raise up :
>
> henri with openjdk-osx-build in code.google.com
> denis with openscg..
>
> i think binary is important, esp the j6, j7, and j8.. i beleive j7
> will be forgotten :)
>
> but i think still a lot of people using j6, and life of time is shortly
>
> 1. there will be people pay for update to oracle.
> 2. there will be people want community model regarding of the openjdk 6
patch..
>
> where is the community work, esp the umbrella?
>
>
> martjin,
> when will we get the binary?
>
> F
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Henri Gomez <henri.gomez at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> I package OpenJDK 7 for OSX for almost a year :
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/openjdk-osx-build/
>>
>> You could find there up to date OpenJDK7 for OSX (and even OpenJDK8
>> for OSX with MLVM)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> 2012/2/10 Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org>:
>>> i am joining your openscg. strange oracle want the binary outside
openjdk :)
>>>
>>> let start promote openscg.
>>>
>>> i am glad my student can part of the packing program :)
>>>
>>> so people can start using openjdk for their work..
>>>
>>> but of course, that will be awesome if openscg can have link in openjdk
>>>
>>> NB: waiting oracle
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Lussier, Denis <denisl at openscg.com>
wrote:
>>>> I am confident that Oracle will not "sue" me.  I am a community member
>>>> acting in the open and in good faith.
>>>>
>>>> There really is no big secret to what OpenSCG does.   It is relatively
>>>> trivial to build the OpenJDK on Linux.    It's a bit tricky to build
OpenJDK
>>>> on Windoze, but, I just followed the published instructions carefully
and
>>>> did a little web searching when I ran into issues.
>>>>
>>>> Over the last couple years it has become easier to build the Windoze
version
>>>> of OpenJDK (especically version 7 & 8).   For OpenJDK 6, I build the
>>>> binaries on Windows 2000 with an old version of Visual Studio to
achieve
>>>> maximum compatibility with newer versions of Win32/Win64.
>>>>
>>>> --Luss
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org>
wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> sorry
>>>>>
>>>>> can u share the how to , how to build and create all those binary, and
>>>>> i just think, your openscg.org as the "main" page for openjdk people
>>>>> to start. and will oracle sue you :)
>>>>>
>>>>> F
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org>
wrote:
>>>>> > so what is the "politic" behind openjdk :0 if we cannot use it ;0
and
>>>>> > must do extra effort for this
>>>>> >
>>>>> > anyway, can you share your how to to the world , to use the openjdk
>>>>> > binary?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > F
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Lussier, Denis <denisl at openscg.com>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> >> I am NOT a lawyer or an Oracle Employee.  Here's my 2 cents below
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Oracle is NOT in the business of packaging OpenJDK for end user
>>>>> >> consumption.
>>>>> >>   They make their proprietary JDK's freely avaialble for all major
>>>>> >> platforms
>>>>> >> as long as you can live with their reasonable restrictions of their
>>>>> >> various
>>>>> >> license agreements.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> --Luss
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org
>
>>>>> >> wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> hi all
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> i got this
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>