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* [gentoo-dev] why compile java-apps?
@ 2004-08-29 22:50 Sven Köhler
  2004-08-29 23:00 ` Thomas Matthijs
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From: Sven Köhler @ 2004-08-29 22:50 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Hi,

many many ebuilds (dev-java/ant for example) download the source, and 
compile it. In my eyes, this is unnecessary. ByteCode will be 
JIT-compiled anyway, and all the java-compilers from sun or 
blackdown-jdk's produce pretty much the same ByteCode. An exception may 
be jikes, but it has more bugs than problem it solves, and is not longer 
under development.

So why did you decide, that ant for example should be compiled instead 
of simply downloading the binary distribution?

Thx
   Sven



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* Re: [gentoo-dev] why compile java-apps?
  2004-08-29 22:50 [gentoo-dev] why compile java-apps? Sven Köhler
@ 2004-08-29 23:00 ` Thomas Matthijs
  2004-08-30  2:05   ` [gentoo-dev] " Sven Köhler
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From: Thomas Matthijs @ 2004-08-29 23:00 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

* Sven Köhler (skoehler@upb.de) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> many many ebuilds (dev-java/ant for example) download the source, and 
> compile it. In my eyes, this is unnecessary. ByteCode will be 
> JIT-compiled anyway, and all the java-compilers from sun or 
> blackdown-jdk's produce pretty much the same ByteCode. An exception may 
> be jikes, but it has more bugs than problem it solves, and is not longer 
> under development.
> 
> So why did you decide, that ant for example should be compiled instead 
> of simply downloading the binary distribution?
> 

http://dev.gentoo.org/~karltk/projects/java/why-build-java-code.html
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* [gentoo-dev] Re: why compile java-apps?
  2004-08-29 23:00 ` Thomas Matthijs
@ 2004-08-30  2:05   ` Sven Köhler
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From: Sven Köhler @ 2004-08-30  2:05 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

>>So why did you decide, that ant for example should be compiled instead 
>>of simply downloading the binary distribution?
> 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~karltk/projects/java/why-build-java-code.html

Oops, OK



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