Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 15:13:18 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system. Message-ID: <199904102113.PAA10092@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904101111200.391-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <199904101510.JAA08971@mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904101111200.391-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> > > As long as we can bring it in conditionally, have libgcj is possibly > > > more important to FreeBSD than you'd think. Realize there are a large > > > number of us out there doing Java development (I'm only doing it for > > > classes now, but there's a lot of folks doing this) and since there's no > > > Java2 yet for FreeBSD, it's a drawback. I have Solaris7 at my elbow > > > here, *extremely* unwillingly, only because I need Java2. > > > > Is libgcj and the like Java2 compliant? I was under the impression that > > it was less 'featureful' than the JDK1 stuff the porting team released? > > It doesn't have all the libs in it, all the stuff that was swing in > Java1. That stuff doesn't require JDK2 to work. Swing actually works better (faster, more robust, etc..) in JDK1 that it does in JDK2, so why do you say you need Java2? I'm confused about the statement that libgcj will give you Java2 compliance, when as I understand it's not even completely JDK1 compliant. Given that, why not just use the 'JDK' or 'kaffe' port along with the Swing package for JDK1 that Sun provides? (That's the stuff we use for our commercial deployment.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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