From owner-freebsd-java Sat Apr 10 13:49:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506C915046; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:49:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA97778; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 16:44:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 16:44:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Nate Williams Cc: Archie Cobbs , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. In-Reply-To: <199904101510.JAA08971@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > As long as we can bring it in conditionally, have libgcj is possibly > > more important to FreeBSD than you'd think. Realize there are a large > > number of us out there doing Java development (I'm only doing it for > > classes now, but there's a lot of folks doing this) and since there's no > > Java2 yet for FreeBSD, it's a drawback. I have Solaris7 at my elbow > > here, *extremely* unwillingly, only because I need Java2. > > Is libgcj and the like Java2 compliant? I was under the impression that > it was less 'featureful' than the JDK1 stuff the porting team released? It doesn't have all the libs in it, all the stuff that was swing in Java1. It's possible it could be made to work, if I added in the swingall.jar, but I don't yet know, I haven't finished my homework yet, so I can't play as I'd like. > > > Nate > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message