Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:32:08 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: <tom.chappell@industryfigure.com> Cc: <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Sun & FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199804221032.LAA21520@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <000c01bd6dcd$997d7060$840726cf@tom.livesystems.com> References: <199804220657.QAA01719@cimlogic.com.au> <000c01bd6dcd$997d7060$840726cf@tom.livesystems.com>
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Tom Chappell said: >But as to the question of why I characterized it as only well-begun, as >opposed to being completed and ready for additional enhancements, I must say >that I am astonished at your surprise. I say that because I've had trouble >running most of the larger Java applications that I've tried to run on the >current build. Are you saying that you haven't had the same experience? I >had assumed that it was universal. To be clear, what I'm saying is that >most of the larger Java programs that I try to run with the current build >mostly work, but exhibit bugs not seen on other Java platforms. [...] Which applications, and what exactly do they do wrong? The FreeBSD JDK hasn't done anything particularly odd in my experience -- although I haven't used it for anything large except my own code (which does tend to make the IRIX JDK curl up its little toes and die). Scott. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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