I did, briefly. Very roughly, under wine there was the expected
performance hit (say, 20% slower), but not under linux compatibility.
Also, there were some openGL problems, but I see wine is being
updated constantly so those problems may disappear.
Since my machines are networked I can run J on a windows
machine while still accessing the FreeBSD filesystem on my
main machine. The drawback here is that file access is slower.
I have no intentions, however, of running J under Vista. I made
the switch to FreeBSD some time ago and like many Linux
users (I suppose) never want to go back. For the long-term
benefit of the J community perhaps it would be worth finding
out what proportion of the J user community uses/prefers J
on Windows versus Linux/Unix.
Steve
bill lam wrote:
Steven Phillips wrote:
I would also like to have a native FreeBSD version of J.
My experience with trying to get J running on FreeBSD
has also been messy an unsatisfactory. Another problem is that you
have to use the linux version of Java rather than the native FreeBSD
version. In the end I reverted back to running J on windows (XP)
but on another machine.
With a native FreeBSD port and the new facility in "cd",
it should also be possible to experiment with Qt as an alternative
GUI to Java.
Did you consider running J under wine under freebsd?
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