Ubuntu 11.10 VM including OpenJDK Build Image

[Frans Thamura]

denis, may be can become one of the commiter here...

which my student/team are learning how to build from him directly
now.. update shortly

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Donald Smith <donald.smith at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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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>> "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
>> though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who
>> neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight
>> that knows not victory nor defeat."
>> -- Theodore Roosevelt
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>