From owner-freebsd-java Mon Feb 25 9:16:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F94E37B404; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:16:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27156; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:15:40 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1PHFcZ30187; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:15:38 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15482.28986.122736.283512@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:15:38 -0700 To: Ernst de Haan Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Jay Sachs , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd.java.mk and native jdk1.3.1p6 In-Reply-To: <200202251712.g1PHCnu08937@zaphod.euronet.nl> References: <20020225172933.L50703-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <200202251704.g1PH4Pg08912@zaphod.euronet.nl> <15482.28484.144473.915897@caddis.yogotech.com> <200202251712.g1PHCnu08937@zaphod.euronet.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Unfortunately, it's not that easy (seriously). > > Okay, you're more into that than me, so I guess you're probably right. > > > > And even if we had a binary JDK: Making the life of the porters > > > easier is in my opinion even more important than making the life easier > > > of normal users ;-) > > > > Sure, but having a binary version will make the life of the porters > > *much* *much* *much* easier. And, don't forget that the porters are > > volunteers. > > > > If you make the life of the porters too hard or place unreasonable > > expectation of them, they may no longer provide any help to the normal > > users. > > This does not make sense to me. I was saying that I *would* like to make the > life of porters easier, as I stated above. Allowing them to compile things > faster, using Jikes, was something I considered an advantage for them. :-) Right, but the java-porters who maintain the JDK have to maintain the patches you provide to cause the JDK-build to use jikes in subsequent releases, which may make their life harder. See previous email. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message