On Friday 11 April 2008, David Herron wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > I am confused about the updates that Sun put out for Java-6 which > > are supposed to include the new Look and Feel (Nimbus) and the > > updates there have been to the sun-java-6 packages on unstable > > which do not include Nimbus. > > > > Can anyone clear up this confusion for me? Or to put it another > > way are we going to get Nimbus in Debian before Java-7? > > > > David > > As Michael Koch noted 6u10 is far from being finished. It just entered > beta and while I probably can't disclose the target end-date for 6u10 > given the size of the work going into 6u10 it's fair to say the obvious > that we have a several month beta period ahead of us. > > We are about to publish 6u6 .. BTW 6u6 contains the fix for the XCB > crash. If I read the bug status for the sun-java-6 bundles correctly > the package is marked as 'grave' because of this specific crash. > > It would be helpful if y'all could do some testing of the 6u10 bundles > now, during beta, and let us know if there are issues on Debian. Given > that there aren't .deb bundles for 6u10 you'll have to do a manual > install of it outside the package system. > > 6u10 also has the new plugin which has been getting huge thumbs up > response from everybody I've talked with. Still 32-bit systems only, > unfortunately. > > BTW, I am the DLJ tech lead now. > > - David Herron
Do you know if Nimbus (and the bits it needs) is available. When I go to nimbus.dev.java.net is points me at swinglabs.org for nightly builds. But when I go there I find no mention of Nimbus. Do you know where I get hold of it? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
