Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:25:27 -0400 From: Tim Middleton <x@Vex.Net> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: freebsddom and java's flaming hoops Message-ID: <200310211925.27323.x@Vex.Net>
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In this frustrated moment, I find it a particularly bitter irony that that "Free BSD dom" banner flies atop on the Java 2 FreeBSD site... because after months of off and on attempting to get JDK 1.4 going on, there can be no less "free" feeling piece of software in the entire ports tree. Every time I think I've got eveyrthing needed and "make" i get another message, run into another problem, face another complication, have to wait for another patch, get set to click thorugh untold thousands of thousand licence agreements... go sign up for things... and on and on and on. Even the little javascript "accept" page on the Java 2 on BSD site itself thwacks me. Yes, I have privoxy installed... and it took me a while to realise that that stupid form to grant me the great privilege of downloading a "patch set" (surely the most well guarded patchset in all of "Free BSD dom"!) simply will not work with my proxy enabled. I figured this out after having failed on Konqueror, failed with Mozilla. Tweaked settings. Failed some more. Fired up a windows box... finally resorting to IE which I never use and hence is not set up for proxy... and finaly got my patchset. And had to then transfer it back to the freebsd box, growling all the way. Who would have guessed that downloading a FreeBSD patchset could be so complicated? It's almost enough to make one entertain wild dreams of those Mono/C# dreamers actually somehow succeeding and gleefully rejoicing as java's smug little mug is smashed into so much historic dust. Do I overstate? Did I mention I'm a little frustrated? No offence intended to anyone personally... I am grateful for your hard work patching and whatnot. But I am ... frustrated with all this crap... -- Tim Middleton | Cain Gang Ltd | Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, the x@veX.net | www.Vex.Net | unpittying orchestra struck up a polka. -D
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