From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 16 10:42:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D91F37B784 for <current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA249892; Tue, 16 May 2000 13:41:49 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu 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> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:05:56 -0400 To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Subject: Re: Motif is now Open Source 8) Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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