From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 08:51:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A5216A4B3 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8418543FDF for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:51:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from 209-6-197-67.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.197.67] helo=jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #4) id 1AD4EC-0002oo-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:51:52 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16281.19096.411423.908677@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:51:52 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3F98A3AE.6020704@spock.cl> References: <3F98A3AE.6020704@spock.cl> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under 21.5 (beta15) "celery" XEmacs Lucid Subject: Patchlevel 4 report. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:51:55 -0000 Roberto de Iriarte writes: > I could not help but notice the complaints about the difficulties to > get native Java running on FreeBSD. > > For a change, i wanted to say just thanks for the excellent work, > i've found the new patchlevel to be very stable (on libc_r and > libkse) and excellent performing (especially on libkse) Sorry, but this is apples and oranges. I had to install jdk-1.4.1 as part of OpenOffice 1.1; having done so, I don't actually know that I'll _use_ any of the Java components. I am prepared to believe once installed Java works perfectly. But that's worth diddly if installing it takes dynamite, heavy machinery, and industrial epoxy* ... and there's no listed way to build OpenOffice without it. Don't get me wrong: I'm thankful for the work the maintainers have put in. And I have no problem agreeing to the licenses and downloading various tarballs. But having done so, I expect this to be as smooth as any other port build. Instead, it's been one of the least pleasant builds I've ever experienced and - yeah, I'm less than thrilled. Robert Huff * - compared to 5 minutes puttering with most other ports.