From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 29 16:11:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA24500 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA24458 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:11:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA13395; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:11:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA13016; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:11:17 -0700 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:11:17 -0700 Message-Id: <199801300011.RAA13016@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Adam Turoff Cc: hackers , "'nate@mt.sri.com'" Subject: RE: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-)) In-Reply-To: <34D13E38@smginc.com> References: <34D13E38@smginc.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > > 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