Re: OT Java stuff [was Using D]

2014-08-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 22:07:49 UTC, Jeremy Powers via Digitalmars-d wrote: If your users are having to install things then the problem is your deployment mechanism not the JVM dependency hell system. Java deployments are actually really quite easy. Either you package a total system w

Re: OT Java stuff [was Using D]

2014-08-26 Thread Jeremy Powers via Digitalmars-d
> > >> If your users are having to install things then the problem is your >> deployment mechanism not the JVM dependency hell system. Java >> deployments are actually really quite easy. Either you package a total >> system with all dependencies and provide entry scripts, or you use Maven >> Centra

Re: OT Java stuff [was Using D]

2014-08-26 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 09:45:15 UTC, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 08:46 +, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] The problem was that Java didn't behave as expected on Windows. Things that worked fine on Linux and OS X didn't work on Windows (even simple

Re: OT Java stuff [was Using D]

2014-08-26 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 08:46 +, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] > The problem was that Java didn't behave as expected on Windows. > Things that worked fine on Linux and OS X didn't work on Windows > (even simple things like deleting files). User reported all sorts > of problems, one of the