Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:04:55 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.960111080055.7558D-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970227073751.14820A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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> Why bother??? It's not so hard to type 'java Class'...... > I like my users to be aware that they are running through an interpreter, > and that there are command line options to the interpreter. > Well some of my users like being able to run java "binaries" without invoking the interpreter on the command line, later on if (when?) say DOS and Win16/32 binaries are supported, I think it would look better if you could just type "progname" and it ran it. > BTW, there's no such thing as a 'java binary'. It's just a bytecode class > file that has to be interpreted. > Aside from the fact that I remember a java-processor out there that runs native java bytecode, you're right. Remember - users don't want to know half the time how things work. They just want it to. :) If a user sees in a blurb that FreeBSD supports executing java "binaries" when you add the jdk package/port, they'll say "wow!". Just another crazy idea. Adrian.
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