From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 16 8:35:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB70A37B791 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 08:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA27937; Tue, 16 May 2000 09:35:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15828; Tue, 16 May 2000 09:35:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 09:35:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005161535.JAA15828@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Amancio Hasty , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motif is now Open Source 8) In-Reply-To: References: <200005160325.VAA13404@nomad.yogotech.com> <200005160349.UAA63159@rah.star-gate.com> <200005160352.VAA13667@nomad.yogotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > I think that you no longer have to include Motif with the JDK. > > > Just let the distribution of Motif come from freebsd.org , i.e., > > > a port or a package. > > > >Too much hassle IMO. I'd *much* rather distribute it as part of the > >package, and I'm looking into how feasible it would be to distribute > >inside of the JDK. > > If this Open Motif can be distributed as a port or package for FreeBSD > itself (and it seems to me that it can), then what hassle is that for > JDK on FreeBSD? It requires two downloads to get a working JDK system. No other OS requires multiple packages to work. People shouldn't have to compile Motif up just to get a non-source version of the JDK to work. Versioning problems that can be caused by folks using different include files and/or X than what was used to build the JDK. Bugs that have slipped in due to changes in the Motif port that negatively effect the JDK. Shall I go on? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message