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Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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> Kasun Gajasinghe wrote: |
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>> Hi Jörg, and Robert, |
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>>>> FWIW one unresolved challenge for linux distributions with the rise of |
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>>>> bytecode languages (such as Java) is that compressed bytecodes are not |
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>>>> binaries in the usual sense (platform dependent machine executable |
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>>>> machine code). i know that it's a hard thing for the linux community |
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>>>> to hear but it's about time that the community acknowledged that these |
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>>>> languages are now mainstream and stop trying to force them into a |
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>>>> inappropriate provisioning model. |
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>> So... what exactly are you suggesting? Switch in to using binaries |
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>> instead of building from source paradigm? |
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> For Java: Yes. Use flags are still useful for dropping optional deps. I |
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> recommended that already years ago. |
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I really meant years ... |
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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.java/43 |
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- Jörg |