Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:43:51 -0600 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting off Message-ID: <20081113034351.GA97314@keira.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <491B05AF.7070303@telenix.org> References: <4919D3E8.204@telenix.org> <20081112054532.GA8373@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <491B05AF.7070303@telenix.org>
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First of all, please use a more appropriate subject. Most of us subscribe to multiple mailing lists, so a subject like "starting off" makes no sense for the questions you are asking. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:34:55AM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > > OK. I need here to say that I'm more than a little bit astonished at how easily > the jdk16 port built. I haven't even tried to use the port for several years, That's obvious, since jdk ports have been building just fine for _many_ years. In fact port maintainers and our ports team have done a very good job keeping ports working well. I hope those people and others who maintain the java ports don't take offense to your astonishment. > and the last times I remember trying it, the port really needed great amounts of > hand-holding to get it to work. You might need to advertise the fact that it > now just plain builds, perfectly, as if it had no bad history at all. That is completely unnecessary. Your comment sounds like an insult wrapped inside a complement. There are many people keeping FreeBSD ports up to date and they are doing an excellent job. Even back to jdk12, I hardly recall having to do anything special... things just worked. This is what I expect from FreeBSD and why I don't use other distros. FreeBSD ports often seem to work better than the ports themselves do. > I wasn't aware of the eclipse-devel port, it's perfect for me, thanks. The only > stumbling block I found was in trying to find the name of the ant port > (apache-ant didn't seem at all obvious to me). You folks think that there's > some problem with using ant, or Ant, anything more obvious? The name of the project is "Apache Ant". The distfiles are apache-ant. The unpacked tarball goes into apache-ant. The port maintainer correctly labelled the port. To the FreeBSD Java team: Thank you for your efforts! Your work has allowed me to use FreeBSD at work and as such, I am more efficient. -- Rick C. Petty
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