On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 04:19, Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > > With the Java FreeBSD mailing list pretty quiet, I thought I might ask > > here whether anyone was working on porting the latest Java versions over > > to FreeBSD. > > There's the openjdk port, java/openjdk8. > > You are asking about input from the FreeBSD community to openjdk9, 10 and > 11 ? > > > While Java 8 will be quite satisfactory for a while, the longer Java > > advances without BSD patches the harder it will be to bring across all > > the good work done for Java 8 on FreeBSD. > > This is correct. > > > Are there plans for the Foundation to sponsor some work in this area? > > Your point is, that the FreeBSD community should do regular testbuilds for > > https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk9u/ > https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk10u/ > https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk11u/ > > and provide patches if something does not build or work, right ? > > And, if necessary, fund someone to do that work ?
Just looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history, it would appear that Java 9 and Java 10 are no longer supported, and, FWIIW, Java 8 is actually planned to be supported longer than Java 11, at least in the context of AdoptOpenJDK, so, there's that. C. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
