Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Kurt Miller wrote: > Quite frankly I'm pretty upset at all the 'Java sucks' banter on > misc. If you and the other naysayers don't realize that porting > Java to OpenBSD was a 'Good-Thing' then you are just UNINFORMED! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carboru

Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-15 Thread Kyle Drake
> Your negativity sucks. Porting Java to OpenBSD was and is not > a trivial effort. It also serves as an excellent test bed for > threads, the runtime linker and large memory applications. > And it allows me to continue to use OpenBSD. Without it I would have had to bail to Linux on a lot of my se

Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-15 Thread Pete Vickers
Hi, Whilst I fully acknowledge the stigmatism that goes with java, I'm very grateful to Kurt et. al. for making it run under OpenBSD. It has saved me from having to admin extra linux/solaris boxes many times, when customers insist on java. I'm also looking forward to merely pkg_add'ing i

Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-14 Thread Jason Beaudoin
> Your negativity sucks. Porting Java to OpenBSD was and is not > a trivial effort. It also serves as an excellent test bed for > threads, the runtime linker and large memory applications. > > Porting Java to OpenBSD enabled the LOCKSS project to use it > for its noble goals. It uncovered deadlocks

Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-14 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:03 PM, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt Miller-3 wrote: >> >> Your negativity sucks. Porting Java to OpenBSD was and is not >> a trivial effort. It also serves as an excellent test bed for >> threads, the runtime linker and large memory applications. >> >> That wa

Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-14 Thread new_guy
Kurt Miller-3 wrote: > > Your negativity sucks. Porting Java to OpenBSD was and is not > a trivial effort. It also serves as an excellent test bed for > threads, the runtime linker and large memory applications. > > That was meant as a joke. I got 4.4 today and it had a sticker poking fun > at Ja

Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-14 Thread Kurt Miller
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 11:13:41 am new_guy wrote: > Ben Adams-3 wrote: > > > > Just wondering if this will effect OpenBSD with java: > > Per the interim governance guidelines for Projects [1] I'm pleased > > to announce the creation of the BSD Port Project > > > > Java is nasty. There...

Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-14 Thread Mike Shaw
C'mon now. It's not that bad. How else are you going to employ 120 developers and project managers to build a shopping cart app? And buying 40 multi-core 8 gig app servers every now and then really helps those struggling hardware makers. In short, Java helps the economy. Since all things not hel

Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-14 Thread Jason Garrett
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:13 AM, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Adams-3 wrote: >> >> Just wondering if this will effect OpenBSD with java: >> Per the interim governance guidelines for Projects [1] I'm pleased >> to announce the creation of the BSD Port Project >> > > Java is nasty. T

Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-14 Thread new_guy
Ben Adams-3 wrote: > > Just wondering if this will effect OpenBSD with java: > Per the interim governance guidelines for Projects [1] I'm pleased > to announce the creation of the BSD Port Project > Java is nasty. There... I said it and it is true. The goopy OOP of Java will tarnish anything

Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-14 Thread Kurt Miller
On Wednesday 08 October 2008 2:21:23 pm Benjamin Adams wrote: > Just wondering if this will effect OpenBSD with java: Eventually it will make things easier for BSD Java porting. -Kurt