On 18/09/2007, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On 18/09/2007, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > > > >> MC wrote: > >> > >>> [...] > >>> > >>>> Since we don't yet have a JRE that can be included > >>>> > >>>> > >>> It was my understanding that the JRE would be included, so it would make > >>> sense to plan for that. (Ian Murdock on this: > >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134939#134939 ) > >>> > >>> I also see from Moinak and Anil that the JRE is reasonably sized: > >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134668#134668 > >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134696#134696 > >>> > >>> > >> Size is not the issue for JRE. At present Swing/AWT still > >> links with Motif libraries on Solaris as opposed to Gtk > >> on Linux. > >> > >> Since Solaris Motif is closed and non-redistributable this > >> makes a Java GUI non-functional on Indiana. The solution > >> is for libawt and friends to either link with Gtk or > >> OpenMotif on Solaris. > >> > > > > I don't see that as making it so you can't ship it. It just means > > linking Gtk or OpenMotif, which I think has been talked about. > > > > The distro JDK can be easily shiped. But what is the point of > shipping something that is half-functional.
If the Linux distros can deal with this, I know we can. I don't know what you're talking about by half-functional. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
