On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Matt Schalit wrote: > Jack Coates wrote: > > > > Is there interest in massive applications in general? > > Massive but not rediculous. Perl and java are useful but > large. A LEAF box with them gets closer and closer to > being a full distro, minus the x-windows. Certainly > the user would need a cdrom based LEAF. I'd like to > see java2, but only the jre. God only knows how well > that'll work on a crippled Linux box :) >
Just for kicks, I took a look at kaffe 1.0.5 -- 1.75 MB .lrp for the whole environment. I don't know enough about java to say what can get taken out of that. > > > The appliance-friendly nature of LEAF makes one think yes, > > but then the limitations of RAM disk, glibc, etc... > > > Yes, reinventing the wheel is bogus, and that's what happens > when we try to pack everything from a full distro into a LEAF. > > > > At any rate, I've just uploaded my 3.2 MB postfix.lrp to > > the www.monkeynoodle.org packages repository. If I get a chance today > > I'll see if a JRE will compile too :-) > > > Well that's 3.2MB of _something_, I don't know what :) > > You might be interested in j2me. That's the Java2 Micro Edition > targeted at embedded systems like color pda's and cell phones with > limited memory and space. > > http://java.sun.com/j2me/ > Interesting idea, but no download link that I could see. > It's like Java2 minus the swing and awt stuff. Might work > well for people. I'm busy writing full blown java2 apps, > but once I learn those, I may poke around with j2me also. > > Regards, > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
