Tip for Intellij IDEA 3.0.5v2 with 1.4.1-p3^H4

[David Bullock]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> On (2003/11/05 04:11), David Bullock wrote:
>
> > It took only 2 hours to compile it, and remember to re-copy things,
> > and then ... it all just works.
> >
> > Thanks a million.  My choice of FreeBSD is thus vindicated!
>
> 2 hours for a JDK build?  I envy you your hardware. :-)
>
> There's no doubt in my mind that FreeBSD is becoming a better Java
> platform with time.  My only concern is whether it's happening fast
> enough.  This is much less an issue with the BSD Java Porting Team than
> it is with 5.x's slow development.

Well, I'm the president of the Australian Java User's group,
and while I can't promise anything, I'd be very happy to hear
of things that would speed this development along, to see what
I could do.  Especially with the recent aspersions on the Linux
codebase by SCO (not that they have much substance), it seems
extremely important that FreeBSD be there with a good JVM as an
alternative.

I can well imagine that having access to quick compiling machine
would be a basic need (mine's nothing special, BTW, just an Athlon
XP 1800 with little else to do).  The FreeBSD foundation don't
exactly say what they're already doing, planning to do, and how
well aligned their actuals and their budget is, so it is hard to
know how to contribute.

cheers,
David Bullock