[SLL] faking Unix knowledge? pretend to know open source Unix?

[Chuck Wolber]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:

> Now, as soon as all those vendors who love java start agreeing on the 
> same version/vendor, we'll be happy.  I'll be over here looking like a 
> smurf while holding my breath.

That will never happen, nor should it. Writing an application for an 
embedded platform involves conforming to an SDK.


> > This is also an issue with Python, Perl, Ruby and any other 
> > interpreted language. Any time something requires an interpreter you 
> > are going to have this problem, to a greater or lesser extent.
> 
> Hey word here is lesser.  And even if it was a problem, installing an 
> extra python is nowhere near the same kind of pain level as installing 
> an extra java.  It's not like python duplicates every little bit of the 
> underlying OS, and thus needs patching for every little problem.  The 
> first time I have to patch both the underlying OS and python to update 
> timezone info, I'll buy you a beer.

What you have described does not apply to Java, or at least the Sun JRE 
implementations that I have worked with. If you wish to run multiple Sun 
JREs side by side, that is your perogative. Simply store them as you would 
an extra Python interpreter, in a versioned directory. The only difficulty 
(which should apply to any versioned interpreter) is tweaking startup 
scripts to call the appropriate interpreter version.


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