From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 11:33:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670DF16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:33:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F54743D2F for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:33:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 54817 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2004 19:33:37 -0000 Received: from 217-162-135-163.dclient.hispeed.ch (HELO ga) (217.162.135.163) by 0 with SMTP; 12 Mar 2004 19:33:37 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:36:28 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1825721042.20040312203628@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <20040312192552.B6EAC8C04@svbcf02.win.tue.nl> References: <1731722915.20040312194338@buz.ch> <20040312192552.B6EAC8C04@svbcf02.win.tue.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: 'Herve Quiroz' cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[4]: PKGNAMEPREFIX for Java ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Manfred Riem List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:33:39 -0000 Hello Manfred, Friday, March 12, 2004, 8:25:48 PM, you wrote: >> >> considering what PITA it is to build Java (even on a fast machine, it >> >> takes forever and that's only the tip of the ice berg). > That's why we need to help out in testing so a diablo release of > 1.4 is there soon. I've yet to see a crash on p6 with Jboss and a load of other stuff, so AFAICT, it IS stable. Desktop use I haven't got for it. >> Well obviously the Java ports all have the JDK as dependency ;-) And >> installing the JDK is a rather painful task no matter how fast your >> machine is. > Time consuming OK, painful not at all. Installing half of RedHat is what I consider serious pain ;-) >> But I get your point about getting rid of ports/java/ (especially bad >> as some tools aren't even in there but in the category they belong, I >> know I had to search for ant more than just once ;-). > So who is going to enter the PR's and take this one forward? > Regards, > Manfred Riem > mriem@win.tue.nl > http://www.riaca.win.tue.nl/ Best regards, Gabriel