PKGNAMEPREFIX for Java ports

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

Hello Manfred,

Friday, March 12, 2004, 8:25:48 PM, you wrote:
>> >> considering what PITA it is to build Java (even on a fast machine, it
>> >> takes forever and that's only the tip of the ice berg). 
> That's why we need to help out in testing so a diablo release of
> 1.4 is there soon. 

I've yet to see a crash on p6 with Jboss and a load of other stuff, so
AFAICT, it IS stable. Desktop use I haven't got for it.

>> Well obviously the Java ports all have the JDK as dependency ;-) And
>> installing the JDK is a rather painful task no matter how fast your
>> machine is.
> Time consuming OK, painful not at all.

Installing half of RedHat is what I consider serious pain ;-)

>> But I get your point about getting rid of ports/java/ (especially bad
>> as some tools aren't even in there but in the category they belong, I
>> know I had to search for ant more than just once ;-).

> So who is going to enter the PR's and take this one forward?

> Regards,

> Manfred Riem
> mriem at win.tue.nl
> http://www.riaca.win.tue.nl/  






Best regards,
 Gabriel