From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 2 17:22:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18802 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 17:22:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from garfield.cs.mun.ca (jr@garfield.cs.mun.ca [134.153.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA18794 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 17:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jr@localhost) by garfield.cs.mun.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA26895; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 21:51:37 -0330 (NST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 21:51:36 -0330 (NST) From: John Rochester To: Eivind Eklund cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ... In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970303012241.00c87370@dimaga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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