That's a bit silly, isn't it? SunOracle has been supplying JDKs on windows for years, and by also providing them for OS X, especially when most of the hard work has already been done (and contributed by) apple, gives them the following benefits:
(A) All this stuff is now open source. I say that's worth a Hooray! (B) Streamlines version rollouts and deployments. For example, on apples, there's no rt.jar or tools.jar, there's Classes.jar that contains both. This means javac is on the *BOOT* classpath on macs, and this means supplying your own javac via -cp just doesn't work (bootcp takes precedence). This means that until recently, building openjdk on macs was a ridiculous exercise in bootstrapping and jumping through hoops. Just one of a few annoying differences that will be going away. A big "Hooray" for me and other JDK hackers. A mild "wahey" for the rest, I'd think. So, there you go. A Hooray and more. I call this a win. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
