JDK 7 M3 status

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/5/5 Mark Reinhold <mr at sun.com>:
>> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 08:55:36 -0700
>> From: silverburgh.meryl at gmail.com
>
>> Will Jdk 7 M3 work on Mac OS 10.5?
>
> Sorry, no; we'll be shipping builds only for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
>
> Apple is responsible for the JDK on Mac OS.  As we get further into the
> schedule we'll be working closely with Apple to help ensure that JDK 7
> is available on Mac OS in a timely fashion, but at the moment I don't
> know of any plans to do a Mac OS build of M3.
>
> - Mark
>

There is of course the BSD port - http://openjdk.java.net/projects/bsd-port/

It really depends what you exactly mean by 'will JDK 7 M3 work on Mac
OS'.  Are you talking about the source code or the builds produced by
Sun? How willing you are to get in there and get your hands dirty?  I
think it's safe to say there won't be a downloadable click-and-run
build for a long time yet.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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