Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:16:15 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it> To: Tom Grove <freebsd@voidmain.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java on the BSD Desktop? Message-ID: <465BFD6F.5090507@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <465B86F9.3000001@voidmain.net> References: <465B86F9.3000001@voidmain.net>
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Tom Grove wrote: > I am wanting to write a gui frontend to pkg_cutleaves. I see that it is > just a simple perl script so, it would be quite simple to just put a gtk > frontend on it and call it a day. However, I am starting to write a > good amount of code in java and was wondering what others think about > java as the de-facto gui standard on the BSD desktop. I personally think Java should be restricted to where write-once-run-everywhere is really needed. If I understand it correctly, you are in this case writing something that will only work on one platform, so I think it would be better to stick to that platform natively. Just my two Eurocents. bye av.
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