Message: 5
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:56:26 PDT
From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Java and Apple
To: Bug <email@hidden>
Cc: Java-Dev Mailing List <email@hidden>
Message-ID: <07Oct17.125634pdt."57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
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
Message: 8
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:06:01 +0200
From: Florian Bomers <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Java and Apple
To: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
Cc: Java-Dev Mailing List <email@hidden>
Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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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
Message: 11
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:24:41 PDT
From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
Subject: porting OpenJDK to OS X
To: Florian Bomers <email@hidden>
Cc: Java-Dev Mailing List <email@hidden>
Message-ID: <07Oct17.142444pdt."57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
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.).
Sure, it might take a long weekend. But once you post the result,
everyone will be able to use it.
And, almost forgot: you'd also need to port tens or hundreds of
thousands of OS specific lines of C and C++ code...
Yeah, I wonder how big a job that would be?
Bill
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:58:38 +0200
From: Brendon McLean <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: porting OpenJDK to OS X
To: Java-Dev Mailing List <email@hidden>
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Yeah, I wonder how big a job that would be?
Bill
I'm guessing about 4 man-years. It's a total thumb-suck but I bet
you I'm right.
