Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:53:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Pete Delaney <pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org, netbsd-ports@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0beta1 - Port of HotJava to FreeBSD and NetBSD More Usefull? Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.951011175038.22780A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <199510110535.AA26288@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
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On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Pete Delaney wrote: > > >} Well, so what do you guys think about updating the "port"? (I know, > > >} it's a binary-only port and we can't distribute the distfile/package > > >} anyway....) I've been using it since yesterday, and it feels really > > >} "beta", so I won't update the port unless people really want the > > >} change to go in. > > > > I dislike this idea, it contains too many bugs for everyday usage > > comparing to old version. > > > BTW, I think separate port (netscape2) will be nice addition. > > Wouldn't a complete port of HotJava to SunOS 4.1.4, FreeBSD, NetBSD, > and Linux be more in the tradition of BSD? I hate being SourceLess. > > -pete > I heard there was some fairly good progress being made on a Linux port. Is this true? Because if the Linux people have a working version, then a FreeBSD/NetBSD version would be almost trivial from there. Having said that, I extremely dislike Sun's implementation of Java. The language itself is really cool, but I guess internal politics at Sun have caused them to turn it from the true cross-platform development environment that it could have been to a stripped-down WWW-applet only environment that only runs right on Solaris and Windows 95 (and maybe SunOS and IRIX in the buggy Netscape beta). Yuck! Oh well, just my $0.02 ---Jake
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