Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 19 February 2005 01:31 pm, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ivan Yosifov wrote: > >I suggest blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01-r1 ( or later :) ). It is based on sun > >1.4.2_07 code , contains linux-specific improvements , and is not fetch > >restricted. Just my 2c. > > I have to program in Jav

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 19 February 2005 06:07 pm, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antoine wrote: > >> The sun-jdk ebuild is as stable as Sun's since it just downloads > >> (asks you to) the file from Sun's site. From your second sentence I > >> assume you're not a proffesional Java programmer. > > > > Evid

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Colin
Antoine wrote: The sun-jdk ebuild is as stable as Sun's since it just downloads (asks you to) the file from Sun's site. From your second sentence I assume you're not a proffesional Java programmer. Evidently. Yeah. But I do need a lot of the 1.5 features, particularly java.util.Scanner, type-sa

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Antoine
The sun-jdk ebuild is as stable as Sun's since it just downloads (asks you to) the file from Sun's site. From your second sentence I assume you're not a proffesional Java programmer. Evidently. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Josh Helmer
On Saturday 19 February 2005 1:57 pm, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > There is a perfectly good java 1.5 ebuild for Gentoo. It is masked > because of some "features" of 1.5. Java 1.5 uses the latest language > features by default ( read: code containing enum as an identifier will > not compile on 1.5 ). If y

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Adi
SÃmbÄtÄ 19 Februarie 2005 21:47, Antoine a scris: > Colin wrote: > > Ivan Yosifov wrote: > >> I suggest blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01-r1 ( or later :) ). It is based on sun > >> 1.4.2_07 code , contains linux-specific improvements , and is not fetch > >> restricted. Just my 2c. > > > > I have to program i

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Adi
SÃmbÄtÄ 19 Februarie 2005 13:56, Fredrik Lundgren a scris: > Dear list, > > I need to download java. > Which is best in Gentoo? Best Java is served hot, with whipped cream and a stick of cinnemon sprinkled with cognac. If you're actually referring to the java vm, then I suggest sun's jdk for j2

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Ivan Yosifov
There is a perfectly good java 1.5 ebuild for Gentoo. It is masked because of some "features" of 1.5. Java 1.5 uses the latest language features by default ( read: code containing enum as an identifier will not compile on 1.5 ). If you try to emerge openoffice or eclipse on 1.5 they won't build. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Antoine
Colin wrote: Ivan Yosifov wrote: I suggest blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01-r1 ( or later :) ). It is based on sun 1.4.2_07 code , contains linux-specific improvements , and is not fetch restricted. Just my 2c. I have to program in Java for my computer science class, so is there a stable version of JDK 1

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Colin
Ivan Yosifov wrote: I suggest blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01-r1 ( or later :) ). It is based on sun 1.4.2_07 code , contains linux-specific improvements , and is not fetch restricted. Just my 2c. I have to program in Java for my computer science class, so is there a stable version of JDK 1.5 for Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 19 February 2005 05:56 am, "Fredrik Lundgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to download java. > Which is best in Gentoo? I'm using blackdown-jdk + sun-j2ee happily. I haven't really experimented with any others. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM:

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 19 February 2005 12:56, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: > Dear list, > > I need to download java. > Which is best in Gentoo? > suns jdk/sdk. Blackdown is slow and buttugly. IBM to old. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Ivan Yosifov
I suggest blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01-r1 ( or later :) ). It is based on sun 1.4.2_07 code , contains linux-specific improvements , and is not fetch restricted. Just my 2c. On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 12:56 +0100, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: > Dear list, > > I need to download java. > Which is best in Gentoo? >

[gentoo-user] "Best java in Gentoo"

2005-02-19 Thread Fredrik Lundgren
Dear list, I need to download java. Which is best in Gentoo? Best Fredrik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list