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From: "Sven Köhler" <skoehler@upb.de>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] why compile java-apps?
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:50:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cgtmp9$3n5$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)

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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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-29 22:50 Sven Köhler [this message]
2004-08-29 23:00 ` [gentoo-dev] why compile java-apps? Thomas Matthijs
2004-08-30  2:05   ` [gentoo-dev] " Sven Köhler

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