Re: OO.org and Java trouble

On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:04:30 +0000, jpd wrote:

On the face of it, though, while theoretically java vms ought to work
the same, it could be they don't, and by what I've seen in this group,
amd64 tends to make quite a lot of weirdness surface. You could try and
replace the jdk, or you could try and run it all in 32bit compatability
mode, or you could try and gather enough info for the maintainers to
work out what the trouble is and ask them for help.

Since Sun are significantly involved in both OOo and Java, and since they
have been making AMD64 workstations for a while now, I'd be quite
surprised if all of them didn't work together nicely, even if they're big
and take a lot of building. I've had no trouble with Java on my AMD64
system, but haven't had a reason to build OOo, yet. It worked fine on my
old iA-32 system, though.

I believe that there's a move within some parts of the OOo community
(presumably not the Sun parts...) to make the Java parts compile and run
with GNU gjc, rather than Sun's Java, but that's probably a
work-in-progress. Certainly OOo has an extensive and hairy build
environment (that seemed to involve replicating the Windows COM
infrastructure, the last time I looked at it...)

Re: editors: it's rare that I have to get more elaborate than plain
text in e-mail or code. I really enjoyed LyX when I used it about eight
years ago: it reminded me of LaTeX while still keeping the good bits of
GUI systems. Doesn't do Word documents, though. I'm continually
disappointed that there doesn't seem to be a Unix-based word processor
that's even in the same ballpark of ease, power and aesthetics as
"Impressions", the frame-oriented word processor that I used on my
Acorn Archimedes machine in the mid-to-late 80s. That ran fast in 1M RAM
(but better in 4M) on an approximately 5MHz processor. If anyone knows of
such a thing, I'd love to hear about it.

Cheers,

--
Andrew

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