Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:53:20 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au, mark@quickweb.com, questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ... Message-ID: <199702271553.KAA01146@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <13303.857054625@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 27, 97 06:43:45 am
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> > > 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. > > Well, go do it and then come back with your proof-of-concept for us to > comment on. Anything else is just blue-sky dreaming, and we've got > more than enough of that to last us through the remainder of this > century. :-) > Actually, writing the image activator for Java wouldn't be too hard, and could be an excellent first-kernel-project. I think that the normal kernel hackers are totally overloaded as Jordan says, so any volunteers? John
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