Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:44:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motif is now Open Source 8) Message-ID: <200005161744.LAA15207@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <v04210107b5472fab2aa6@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200005160325.VAA13404@nomad.yogotech.com> <200005160349.UAA63159@rah.star-gate.com> <200005160352.VAA13667@nomad.yogotech.com> <v04210106b54719d50937@[128.113.24.47]> <200005161535.JAA15828@nomad.yogotech.com> <v04210107b5472fab2aa6@[128.113.24.47]>
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> > > If this Open Motif can be distributed as a port or package for FreeBSD > > > itself (and it seems to me that it can), then what hassle is that for > > > JDK on FreeBSD? > > > >It requires two downloads to get a working JDK system. No other OS > >requires multiple packages to work. > > As long as package-dependencies are handled automatically, I do not > see this as a problem. > > >People shouldn't have to compile Motif up just to get a non-source > >version of the JDK to work. Versioning problems that can be caused by > >folks using different include files and/or X than what was used to build > >the JDK. Bugs that have slipped in due to changes in the Motif port > >that negatively effect the JDK. > > Hmm. You're saying that if I already have X installed, and if I already > have Open Motif installed, then if JDK uses these already-working packages > it will have bugs, and thus it has to install it's own version of > Motif? No, I'm saying that OpenSource Motif *will* be going through lots of gyrations in the future, and these gyrations may cause instabilities in the JDK. But, if the JDK uses the Motif version it was compiled against, it will work 'consistently. Unlike X (which rarely changes), I suspect the Motif stuff to change alot. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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