Comments on: Why GCJ is bad (for newbies) and why Sun is to blame http://www.antwerkz.com/why-gcj-is-bad-for-newbies-and-why-sun-is-to-blame/ Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:18:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: joseph knecht http://www.antwerkz.com/why-gcj-is-bad-for-newbies-and-why-sun-is-to-blame/comment-page-1/#comment-12 joseph knecht Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:29:26 +0000 http://www.antwerkz.com/wp/?p=1003#comment-12 Ah, okay. It sounded to me like you were saying that there was more Gentoo could do. Saying "X got it mostly right" implies X could have done better, and has a different connotation than "X got it as right as it could given Y". Ah, okay.

It sounded to me like you were saying that there was more Gentoo could do. Saying “X got it mostly right” implies X could have done better, and has a different connotation than “X got it as right as it could given Y”.

]]> By: jlee http://www.antwerkz.com/why-gcj-is-bad-for-newbies-and-why-sun-is-to-blame/comment-page-1/#comment-11 jlee Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:09:59 +0000 http://www.antwerkz.com/wp/?p=1003#comment-11 exactly. exactly.

]]> By: Tom http://www.antwerkz.com/why-gcj-is-bad-for-newbies-and-why-sun-is-to-blame/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Tom Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:09:29 +0000 http://www.antwerkz.com/wp/?p=1003#comment-10 For Genoo, what's not totally right, I think, is the idea that you had to download it all. It could have been available directly (and where applicable, pre-installed). For Genoo, what’s not totally right, I think, is the idea that you had to download it all. It could have been available directly (and where applicable, pre-installed).

]]> By: jlee http://www.antwerkz.com/why-gcj-is-bad-for-newbies-and-why-sun-is-to-blame/comment-page-1/#comment-9 jlee Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:07:48 +0000 http://www.antwerkz.com/wp/?p=1003#comment-9 They get it mostly right because they can't go any further. You still have to manually download the JDK, for example. Other than that, it's perfect. Of all the linux distrubutions, I think gentoo is the best, fwiw. It's just the manual download that annoys me but there's nothing that gentoo can do about that. They get it mostly right because they can’t go any further. You still have to manually download the JDK, for example. Other than that, it’s perfect. Of all the linux distrubutions, I think gentoo is the best, fwiw. It’s just the manual download that annoys me but there’s nothing that gentoo can do about that.

]]> By: joseph knecht http://www.antwerkz.com/why-gcj-is-bad-for-newbies-and-why-sun-is-to-blame/comment-page-1/#comment-8 joseph knecht Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:44:14 +0000 http://www.antwerkz.com/wp/?p=1003#comment-8 Just out of curiousity, why do you imply that Gentoo still doesn't get it totally right? I have sun's 1.4 and 1.5 jdk installed, both via Gentoo, and have had no problems whatsoever. Install was trivial. Download from Sun, move to a certain directory, and type "emerge sun-jdk". What could be easier given the downloading requirement? Just out of curiousity, why do you imply that Gentoo still doesn’t get it totally right?

I have sun’s 1.4 and 1.5 jdk installed, both via Gentoo, and have had no problems whatsoever. Install was trivial. Download from Sun, move to a certain directory, and type “emerge sun-jdk”. What could be easier given the downloading requirement?

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