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From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
To: behanna@zbzoom.net, FreeBSD-Java <java@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Port for the Orion Server (J2EE Application Server)
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--On Saturday, December 30, 2000 19:50:07 -0500 Chris BeHanna 
<behanna@zbzoom.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote:
>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Being responsible for a number of open source Java libraries I strongly
>> prefer that a port does a binary install.
>
>     With (almost?) all ports, you have always had the option of
> grabbing the precompiled package and doing
>
>     pkg_add <pkgtarball>
>
> instead of cd'ing to the ports area and doing
>
>     make install
>
> I strongly believe that this model should be followed for Java as well
> as for C/C++.

Uhm. You have not addressed any of the concerns expressed in the mail you 
are responding to. Nor do you provide any arguments in favor of your strong 
belief.

Cheers,
Jeroen


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