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... I said it and it is true. The goopy OOP of Java will > tarnish anything it touches. Personally, I hope Java (in all of its virtual > glory) never makes it into OpenBSD at all. Real men will cry man tears when > OpenBSD ships with Java. >
Uninformed. We've had Java for years and now we have packages: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/jdk-1.7.0.00b24p2.tgz 4.4 will have packages also. 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 in our pthread lib that resulted in large improvements to libpthread. Its use of dlopen() and friends resulted in significant improvements in our runtime linker. Oh and who made those improvements??? The same person who took the time to port Java to OpenBSD!! Me and other OpenBSD developers who saw the need to improve things. BTW, all those system level improvements have made significant stability gains for applications like firefox, KDE, OpenOffice, Asterisk, etc, etc which all use threads and dlopen() alot. 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! -Kurt
