Author: Chris Gehlker Date: Subject: Sun JSDK versus others. WAS: Re: Installfest menu - last chance to review
On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 01:26 PM, liberty young wrote:
> The Sun's 1.4.2 Linux binary for x86 is pretty good.
Snip > The self extracting binary is truely Distribution Independent.
They didn't always have the self extracting binary. They have made
progress. They still don't support as many architectures as IBM or
Blackdown but they are definitely moving in the right direction. Funny
that they don't support Linux on Spark.
[snip]
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not against other Javas. I have no experience
> with Blackdown, Kafe, or whatever IBM is shipping. I also have no
> experience with Eclipse, though my friend's hate it (that could be a
> biased with a familiarity with Forte).
Eclipse doesn't suck. Really.
>
> I just don't want to outright dismiss the Sun JSDK. I like the fact
> that
> the code my friend writes on his machine behaves (for better or worse)
> exactly the same on my machine.
I don't want to dismiss them either. I'm still concerned about the
issue the OP raised. Does the binary installer include the click
through license? We shouldn't be distributing anything without a
license or accepting a license on behalf of another person. Blackdown
comes with a text license, from Sun.
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