From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 2 16:21:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA13536 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from nic.follonett.no (nic.follonett.no [194.198.43.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA13531 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:21:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by nic.follonett.no (8.8.5/8.8.3) with UUCP id BAA02375; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 01:19:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from oo7 (oo7.dimaga.com [192.0.0.65]) by dimaga.com (8.8.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id BAA14305; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 01:22:42 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970303012241.00c87370@dimaga.com> X-Sender: eivind@dimaga.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 01:22:43 +0100 To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) From: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ... Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 02:53 PM 3/2/97 -0800, Jake Hamby wrote: >Just wanted to point out that Solaris 2.6 will just be using a shell script >wrapper to start up Java programs. There'll be a special tool to create it >(setting up the CLASSPATH properly, and so forth), but no special Java >recognition in the kernel AFAIK. > >In other words, if this "feature" is difficult to add to FreeBSD, I'd just >forget about it. The Linux crowd may think it's neat, but there are certainly >more important things to work on. It looks very good in those small lists with checkboxes for different OSes. It will be one of the influencing factors for whether people select FreeBSD or Linux in a cursory examination. I'd say there are benefits from adding it, though mainly PR :) Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org