Shawn Walker wrote: > On 18/09/2007, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > >> MC wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> >>>> Since we don't yet have a JRE that can be included >>>> >>>> >>> It was my understanding that the JRE would be included, so it would make >>> sense to plan for that. (Ian Murdock on this: >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134939#134939 ) >>> >>> I also see from Moinak and Anil that the JRE is reasonably sized: >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134668#134668 >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134696#134696 >>> >>> >> Size is not the issue for JRE. At present Swing/AWT still >> links with Motif libraries on Solaris as opposed to Gtk >> on Linux. >> >> Since Solaris Motif is closed and non-redistributable this >> makes a Java GUI non-functional on Indiana. The solution >> is for libawt and friends to either link with Gtk or >> OpenMotif on Solaris. >> > > I don't see that as making it so you can't ship it. It just means > linking Gtk or OpenMotif, which I think has been talked about. >
The distro JDK can be easily shiped. But what is the point of shipping something that is half-functional. Regards, Moinak.
