On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Szudzik
<mszudzik@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:03:17PM -0300, John Nietzsche wrote:
>> i would like to add support for java on my 4.3 openbsd desktop. Has
>> anybody already done so? May you point a url where i could download
>> the package(s) from?
>
> As the previous posters have pointed out, there are no JDK binary
> packages available for OpenBSD 4.3--you have to fetch and build the JDK
> from source yourself.  But in OpenBSD 4.4 (which will be released in
> November), that situation will change, and binary packages for Java will
> be available.  See
>  http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080321023803

Installing JDK manually is a royal pain at the moment. Clicking all
those websites, accepting license agreements, downloading and then
compiling the whole thing _does_ take hours. It would be really
awesome to have Java available as package as of 4.4!