Peter Flynn wrote: > [David] > >> Maybe holding the unjustified vitriol until you read the reply that came *3 >> minutes* after the post? (and well over an hour before you posted). >> > > My apologies for the crossed wires: I'm away from base so my access is > sporadic, and messages don't always arrive as promptly as one might wish. > > And if it came over as vitriol my apologies for that also; frustration > sometimes leads to this when things which seem obvious and apparent to the > dumb user (me) look radically different to the developers. > > >> Especially since one of the best bits of community marketing from Quim was: >> >> $ jailbreak >> jailbreak: not found >> $ sudo gainroot >> # >> > > That message doesn't appear to have made my mailbox, but it's excellent news, > thanks very much. > > >> Which incidentally means you can build and install your own java >> interpreter. I >> look forward to seeing your java4maemo package; since Nokia gave you exactly >> what you asked for. >> >> You *do* intend to do that for the community don't you? >> > > I think this is more crossed wires, I'm afraid. I'm a user of Java > applications, not a Java developer. I develop stuff that uses Java > applications, among others, but I don't write Java (it's on the list to learn > next year). All I was looking for was to know whether there would be an > implementation of Java available that would let me run a commandline Java > application like Saxon. I'm not looking for graphics, embeddability, APIs, or > libraries, so I'm in a specialist minority, and it's sometimes frustratingly > difficult to explain to developers the apparent simplicity of my needs, when > they are justifiably much more concerned with more complex demands. > Everyone starts as a user, then slowly becomes a developer. Given your small requirements of only needing command-line Java, you have a good chance of compiling Java for Maemo and having it work for your needs. Report your success or failure to the maemo-devel list, where you might get some help from other developers. It might snowball.
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