freebsd stable - Feb 2019 - Java support

Hi everyone

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 is of coursethe https://adoptopenjdk.net/project, but 
there is little activity immediately obvious on porting there [1].

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.

Are there plans for the Foundation to sponsor some work in this area? 
I'm guessing its pretty substantial.


Cheers

Ari



[1] 
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk11u/search?o=desc&q=bsd&s=committer-date&type=Commits

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 ?

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