Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:11:17 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Adam Turoff <AdamT@smginc.com> Cc: hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'nate@mt.sri.com'" <nate@mt.sri.com> Subject: RE: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-)) Message-ID: <199801300011.RAA13016@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <34D13E38@smginc.com> References: <34D13E38@smginc.com>
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> > Java does dynamic extension loading on the fly quite well, even better > > than TCL since you can extend the loader to do it however you want. > Our > > product uses that feature extensively. :) > > Yeah, extensibility through dynamic loading is nice, but I for one don't > want > to make sure I have the right version of lesstif properly linked to the > proper > JVM just to make my life simpler. Then download the newer version of the JDK I've posted about about a dozen times this week that has Motif statically compiled in. :) ftp://hub.freebsd.org/pub/incoming/java/jdk1.1.5.tar.gz. > I'm running a headless box in another room, and I don't want to install X > on it, and I don't think that should prevent me from doing local admin. Ahh, you want a version of java that doesn't require X libs. That's a bit harder to do, but not impossible. Steve Byrne's Linux port does that, and if someone has some time to do that I'm not averse to seeing it done. But, I've got other things to do in the next few weeks, like brush up on my Japanese for my trip. :) > Yeah, Java is cool, and it'll wash the dishes in a year or two. But > can we _please_ move past the "it'll be better in Java" evangelism? That wasn't my intent, and sorry if it came across that way. I was responding to Jordan comment that implied that TCL was the only language where you could do 'dynamic loading', which is simply untrue. Nate
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