Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:05:56 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motif is now Open Source 8) Message-ID: <v04210107b5472fab2aa6@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200005161535.JAA15828@nomad.yogotech.com> References: <200005160325.VAA13404@nomad.yogotech.com> <200005160349.UAA63159@rah.star-gate.com> <200005160352.VAA13667@nomad.yogotech.com> <v04210106b54719d50937@[128.113.24.47]> <200005161535.JAA15828@nomad.yogotech.com>
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At 9:35 AM -0600 5/16/00, Nate Williams wrote: > > 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. As long as package-dependencies are handled automatically, I do not see this as a problem. >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. Hmm. You're saying that if I already have X installed, and if I already have Open Motif installed, then if JDK uses these already-working packages it will have bugs, and thus it has to install it's own version of Motif? (and it's own version of X?). I don't have any reason to doubt you, if you say that's true, but if that's true then it does not leave me with a "warm and fuzzy" feeling about JDK/Motif. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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