Ubuntu 11.10 VM including OpenJDK Build Image

[John Yeary]

OK, I get it about the Kernel. However, a kernel OpenJDK is not. The Linux
kernel needs more to make it an O/S. An OpenJDK binary is a complete system
in about 68MB for OpenJDK 7 Mac PPC.

I do understand that the system is not currently configured with a CI. It
does make sense thought to have a CI with the build artifacts which people
can download. Even if it is only a limited set like the last 10 builds.
This sounds very appealing for a number of obvious reasons.

Yes, putting the bits up on a wiki did seem odd to me. I will link my bits
to my current storage account, but I will find a better solution.

Just a thought... we have jdk6.java.net, and jdk7.java.net... does it make
sense to have openjdk7.java.net for binaries from either Oracle, or
community folks?

John

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Dalibor Topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>wrote:

> On 2/14/12 2:19 AM, John Yeary wrote:
> > Let me make sure I understand, on the OpenJDK site we don't want to host
> > binaries either built by community folks, or Oracle?
>
> Distributing (third party) binaries is not what OpenJDK is set up to do
> well.
> In the way of a broken analogy, it's a bit like the Linux kernel, and its
> source-code only kernel.org, then it is like, say, a full-fledged Linux
> distribution, that provides binaries, caters to end users, etc. Or
> gcc.gnu.org,
> for another example.
>
> > If I have a binary, add it as an attachment to the wiki for the specific
> > port?
>
> That won't work, technically. But then, there is also a lot more work to
> distributing any open source code then finding a spot large enough to host
> a binary.
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
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