Ubuntu 11.10 VM including OpenJDK Build Image

[Donald Smith]

No prohibition at all.  But, we already build and host our own binaries 
for Java and simply don't have the resources of need to do it twice.  
We'd rather not be in the practice of hosting binaries that other 
people/groups produce.  So, from that deduction we'd happily have a 
central repository of links to great builds produced and hosted by others.

  - Don

On 14/02/2012 10:44 AM, John Yeary wrote:
> Hello Dalibor and Donald,
>
> Am I missing something? It seems like you both are not really interested in
> a central repository for OpenJDK builds. Is there an Oracle prohibition
> about doing something like this?
>
> I can add a page with links to binaries from the community.
>
> I think a lot of users and companies are more likely to be wary of
> downloading "John's Wacky OpenJDK 7 for PPC". OK, that was overly dramatic,
> but I know I am wary of downloading compiled bits from someone I don't know.
>
> Some folks make really good bits and package them nicely. Mine are just a
> zip file.
>
> John
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> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Donald Smith<donald.smith at oracle.com>wrote:
>
>> Personally, I think a well formed list of links to the community binaries
>> makes a lot of sense.
>>
>>   - Don
>>
>>
>> On 14/02/2012 7:06 AM, Dalibor Topic 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
>>>