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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 1997 21:51:36 -0330 (NST)
From:      John Rochester <jr@cs.mun.ca>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.970302214812.2999A-100000@garfield.cs.mun.ca>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970303012241.00c87370@dimaga.com>

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On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> At 02:53 PM 3/2/97 -0800, Jake Hamby wrote:
> >Just wanted to point out that Solaris 2.6 will just be using a shell script 
> >wrapper to start up Java programs.  There'll be a special tool to create it 
> >(setting up the CLASSPATH properly, and so forth), but no special Java 
> >recognition in the kernel AFAIK.
> >
> >In other words, if this "feature" is difficult to add to FreeBSD, I'd just 
> >forget about it.  The Linux crowd may think it's neat, but there are
> certainly 
> >more important things to work on.
> 
> It looks very good in those small lists with checkboxes for different OSes.
>  It will be one of the influencing factors for whether people select
> FreeBSD or Linux in a cursory examination.  I'd say there are benefits from
> adding it, though mainly PR :)
> 

Maybe this more properly belongs in the shell?  I've certainly thought
about modifying pdksh to do it.

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John Rochester			jr@cs.mun.ca
Dept. of Computer Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada




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