Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 10:51:32 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.ua> Cc: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What can we do about Java? Message-ID: <199712041751.KAA25739@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <3485937E.F82C9A6@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> References: <34857E98.A0B877C3@fsl.noaa.gov> <3485937E.F82C9A6@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>
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FWIW - Sun released JDK 1.1.5 today. Downloading it as I type. :) > Some random comments: > 1. Exists 2 ways for Java on FreeBSD project. > 1. Improve the port of the Sun JDK. Or at least port a newer version and hope for the best. > + : 1. Exists full source for other systems. > 2. It's "canonical" implementation. Yep, that's my take on the matter. Kaffe is probably a better 'long term' solution, but I need Java *today*. > -: 1. Source require licension. It's not an obnoxious license, really. > 2. AWT stuff use Motiff. > (current 1.1.2 JDK port work fine with non-graphics > stuff, but > AWT realization, in practice, unusable) The current port is 1.1, unless you're aware of something I'm not. And, I think the AWT buginess has more to do with lessTif than Motif. > May be anybody can create port with static Motiff > libraries ? Maybe, but in my *very* short attempt to compile using Keith's patches I couldn't get it to work with any *tif, so I gave up trying with Motif. > 3. Strange binary license policy: > why we can not have Sun Java in ports ? One of the bad parts of their license that paranoid people avoid. Nate
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