From owner-freebsd-java Wed Apr 22 03:32:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA11715 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 03:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA11692 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:32:14 GMT (envelope-from scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) Received: from brunos-sun.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.185]; by hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5/S-4.0) with SMTP; id LAA21520; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:32:08 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:32:08 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199804221032.LAA21520@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Received: locally by brunos-sun (SMI-8.6/QMW-client-3.2b); poster "scott"; id LAA14199; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:28:15 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Cc: Subject: RE: Sun & FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <000c01bd6dcd$997d7060$840726cf@tom.livesystems.com> References: <199804220657.QAA01719@cimlogic.com.au> <000c01bd6dcd$997d7060$840726cf@tom.livesystems.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tom Chappell said: >But as to the question of why I characterized it as only well-begun, as >opposed to being completed and ready for additional enhancements, I must say >that I am astonished at your surprise. I say that because I've had trouble >running most of the larger Java applications that I've tried to run on the >current build. Are you saying that you haven't had the same experience? I >had assumed that it was universal. To be clear, what I'm saying is that >most of the larger Java programs that I try to run with the current build >mostly work, but exhibit bugs not seen on other Java platforms. [...] Which applications, and what exactly do they do wrong? The FreeBSD JDK hasn't done anything particularly odd in my experience -- although I haven't used it for anything large except my own code (which does tend to make the IRIX JDK curl up its little toes and die). Scott. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message