as nice as the idea sounds, I wonder why nobody has done it?
Seriously, compiling the JDK is not something you do quickly
(even if you get everything set up, it will take hours, depending
on the processor/RAM/etc.).
And, almost forgot: you'd also need to port tens or hundreds of
thousands of OS specific lines of C and C++ code...
Getting the bootstrap compiled would be the smallest problem...
Florian
On 10/17/2007 9:56 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
>> It may be the new play, but I have 2 million lines of Java code that
>> ain't gonna convert themselves!
>
> Could you download OpenJDK, and compile it from source, and free
> yourself from dependence on Apple's business needs, whims and secrecy?
>
> Hmmm, maybe not -- I see that OpenJDK needs *another* Java 6 compiler
> to bootstrap the process. So someone with Java 6 would have to do
> this and post an OpenJDK dmg to bootstrap the process.
>
> Bill
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