Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 21:51:36 -0330 (NST) From: John Rochester <jr@cs.mun.ca> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ... Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.970302214812.2999A-100000@garfield.cs.mun.ca> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970303012241.00c87370@dimaga.com>
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On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote: > 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 :) > Maybe this more properly belongs in the shell? I've certainly thought about modifying pdksh to do it. ----- John Rochester jr@cs.mun.ca Dept. of Computer Science Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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