From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 04:10:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225771065670 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:10:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: from kiwi-computer.com (keira.kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDCC08FC18 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:10:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 97667 invoked by uid 2001); 13 Nov 2008 03:43:51 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:43:51 -0600 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20081113034351.GA97314@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <4919D3E8.204@telenix.org> <20081112054532.GA8373@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <491B05AF.7070303@telenix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <491B05AF.7070303@telenix.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting off X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:10:33 -0000 First of all, please use a more appropriate subject. Most of us subscribe to multiple mailing lists, so a subject like "starting off" makes no sense for the questions you are asking. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:34:55AM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > > OK. I need here to say that I'm more than a little bit astonished at how easily > the jdk16 port built. I haven't even tried to use the port for several years, That's obvious, since jdk ports have been building just fine for _many_ years. In fact port maintainers and our ports team have done a very good job keeping ports working well. I hope those people and others who maintain the java ports don't take offense to your astonishment. > and the last times I remember trying it, the port really needed great amounts of > hand-holding to get it to work. You might need to advertise the fact that it > now just plain builds, perfectly, as if it had no bad history at all. That is completely unnecessary. Your comment sounds like an insult wrapped inside a complement. There are many people keeping FreeBSD ports up to date and they are doing an excellent job. Even back to jdk12, I hardly recall having to do anything special... things just worked. This is what I expect from FreeBSD and why I don't use other distros. FreeBSD ports often seem to work better than the ports themselves do. > I wasn't aware of the eclipse-devel port, it's perfect for me, thanks. The only > stumbling block I found was in trying to find the name of the ant port > (apache-ant didn't seem at all obvious to me). You folks think that there's > some problem with using ant, or Ant, anything more obvious? The name of the project is "Apache Ant". The distfiles are apache-ant. The unpacked tarball goes into apache-ant. The port maintainer correctly labelled the port. To the FreeBSD Java team: Thank you for your efforts! Your work has allowed me to use FreeBSD at work and as such, I am more efficient. -- Rick C. Petty