Java Solution

[Karl Larsen]

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:26 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>   
>> --- Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> 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.
>>>
>>>       
>> Know Les, 1.5 apples (one and a half apples)
>> 1.6 oranges (one and six tenths of oranges)
>> What do apples and oranges have to do with java?
>>
>> Jun from Sun cannot even be compatible with itself. 
>> See article below.  Fedora is working with Sun on
>> these and other issues.  Please be patient :).  
>>     
> ----
> the 1.5 that Karl (and thus Les by extension) was the gcj version that
> is bundled by Fedora and it's cloudy if not completely disconnected from
> the Sun 1.5.x releases and obviously the Sun 1.6 releases. That's what
> Les meant by Apples and Oranges (GCJ Java and Sun Java)
>
> The fact remains that Karl is one confused puppy and Les stretches to
> make a point that Karl's confusion represents the greater confusion as a
> whole which is absurd because Karl represents wrongfulness and confusion
> across the board, not just wrt java
>
> I am quite certain that 5 days ago, I suggested that Les be patient but
> that hasn't stopped him from trying to score ethereal points, and most
> ashamedly, using Karl as proof of how problematic the situation is.
>
> Craig
>
>   
    Craig, I am neither confused or wrong. You are wrong and you 
actually call me stupid. I want to say it takes one to know one.


Karl


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