Java Solution

[Karl Larsen]

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:02 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 16:40 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>>> 2. Next the small wimpy java 1.51 which is of no use to a serious 
>>>>>>> java user should not be made available to the user.Instead there 
>>>>>>> should be dummy /usr/java/default/bin/java file which will print out 
>>>>>>> "Java not installed" if you press java in a Terminal. There needs to 
>>>>>>> be a link between /etc/alternatives/java to /usr/java/default/bin/java.
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Most "Serious java users" ie corporations are using either 1.4 (as we 
>>>>>> are at work) or 1.5, so stop speaking of something you know nothing 
>>>>>> about. Hardly anyone is using 1.6 commercially yet. And they're the 
>>>>>> people who are "serious users", not people trying to run applets in 
>>>>>> their browsers...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>    Why lie about what I KNOW? I tried to install jedit with the 1.5 on 
>>>>> F8 and it just spit out error messages. Then I bit the bullet and 
>>>>> installed what Sun Inc said is right and jedit works SUPER.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is fact not you GUESS.
>>>>>           
>>>> You are comparing 1.5 apples to 1.6 oranges.  The 1.5 you tried was not 
>>>> Sun java, and jedit probably works just fine with Sun Java 1.5 as well 
>>>> as the 1.6 you installed.
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> what was the point you were trying make using Karl as proof?  LOL!!!
>>>       
>> That this stuff should work as shipped.
>>     
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> are you saying that jedit doesn't work with shipped version of gcj ?
>
> Craig
>
>   
             YES!



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