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From: "Sven Köhler" <skoehler@×××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] why compile java-apps?
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:53:34
Message-Id: cgtmp9$3n5$1@sea.gmane.org
1 Hi,
2
3 many many ebuilds (dev-java/ant for example) download the source, and
4 compile it. In my eyes, this is unnecessary. ByteCode will be
5 JIT-compiled anyway, and all the java-compilers from sun or
6 blackdown-jdk's produce pretty much the same ByteCode. An exception may
7 be jikes, but it has more bugs than problem it solves, and is not longer
8 under development.
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10 So why did you decide, that ant for example should be compiled instead
11 of simply downloading the binary distribution?
12
13 Thx
14 Sven
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Re: [gentoo-dev] why compile java-apps? Thomas Matthijs <axxo@g.o>