OpenJDK Binary

[John Yeary]

Hey I want an Admiral Lord title...

The fact that we are trying to improve OpenJDK is great feat. I am just
happy to try to play some part in it.

John
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On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Martijn Verburg
<martijnverburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> We == a bunch of OpenJDK hackers that were at FOSDEM, including some Oracle
> folks, linux distro folks (eg red hat, debian) and lots of independant
> hackers. I didn't exactly take a roll call.
>
> My position?  Grand lord admiral, hmm no wait the bylaws probably don't
> allow that :-).
>
> I'm just an enthusiastic amateur hacker who wants to see more Java
> developers get involved in the OpenJDK <shrug>.
>
> M
>
> On Saturday, 11 February 2012, Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org> wrote:
> > who is we, and where do your position in this openjdk?
> >
> > you are not oracle :)
> >
> > F
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Martijn Verburg
> > <martijnverburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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 :)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>
>