Quoting "Jon A. Cruz" <jon@...18...>:
On Oct 3, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Bob Jamison wrote:
Nicu Buculei wrote:
- regarding the size, JVM is a bigger dependency compared
with
either Perl and Python;
I agree. It would add 15 MB or so for the JRE.
Or 0 MB or so for OS X.
Or 0 MB for most Linux users, because there's no easy way to install a working JVM.
Do you really expect most end-users to be able to hunt down and install the blackdown stuff?
That's why all modern versions of OS X come with Java as a built-in.
R. Stallman is my hero, but I disagree on this topic. This is an irrational religious obsession with him. -Using- the VM does not poison software.
Maybe that would be true if there was a sufficiently free VM implementation available...
There's a pragmatic issue at the root of this -- a system is only going to be as free as its least free required component. Do you disagree with that?
But, no, I don't want to add Java as a dep either. But it
-can- be
called, and it would probably be good to have the capability to use it as an option.
And I agree with that also.
Yes, as far as that goes I agree. We just can't make anything critical depend on Java.
-mental