Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:25:48 +0100 From: "Manfred Riem" <mriem@win.tue.nl> To: <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>, "'Herve Quiroz'" <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Re[2]: PKGNAMEPREFIX for Java ports Message-ID: <20040312192552.B6EAC8C04@svbcf02.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <1731722915.20040312194338@buz.ch>
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Hi Gabriel, > >> I think it's not so bad to have Java ports in the java directory > >> considering what PITA it is to build Java (even on a fast machine, it > >> takes forever and that's only the tip of the ice berg). That's why we need to help out in testing so a diablo release of 1.4 is there soon. > Well obviously the Java ports all have the JDK as dependency ;-) And > installing the JDK is a rather painful task no matter how fast your > machine is. Time consuming OK, painful not at all. > But I get your point about getting rid of ports/java/ (especially bad > as some tools aren't even in there but in the category they belong, I > know I had to search for ant more than just once ;-). So who is going to enter the PR's and take this one forward? Regards, Manfred Riem mriem@win.tue.nl http://www.riaca.win.tue.nl/
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