Re: [Sheflug] Netscape and Java ...

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:

> JRE is much smaller, and generally works pretty well. I have to congratulate
> the Blackdown guys on the quality of their implementation, it seems pretty
> good from my experience, non of the old CLASSPATH nonsense of the old days
> ;)

Better, but IBM JDK (I say JDK, I mean JDK+JRE) still beats it for speed
and even compatibility on some stuff (and it's a beta).
If I never have to do any more Java development I will be a happy fella.

1) Why no portable build system? (I've seen jmake, but it's not really any
improvement due to 2)
2) Why no decent way of running code portably? Tough one, I'll admit, but
the current situation e.g. try to run program -> realise it's a bash
script -> hack it to use correct paths for your jdk -> find that separate
paths for jdk and jre (legal!!) breaks it -> hard code paths -> find it
still doesn't work because of some minor difference between versions or
Sun undocumented "feature" -> rm -rf *java*
Kinda sucks?

Hmm, it's a Sunday. I should relax. :)


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