Mac usage

[Charles Lee]

Yea so +1 for me too... I run mac for everything i do. is a nice  
thought that I can code to the latest with a awesome OS

Thanks
Charlie


On 3 Oct 2007, at 19:56, Alex Miller wrote:

> Yes, interested in working on it.  Isn't that the intent of this  
> compiler-**dev** list?  :)
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> Alex Miller
> http://tech.puredanger.com
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jonathan Gibbons <Jonathan.Gibbons at Sun.COM>
> To: Patrick Wright <pdoubleya at gmail.com>
> Cc: compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 1:44:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Mac usage
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> You can download and build the compiler as a jar file even now.
>  Download the
> langtools code, open the NetBeans compiler project and build it. You
>  can use
> Apple's Java 5 to build the OpenJDK compiler.
>
> Note that this does not give you the full native launcher, which still
> lives in and
> is built by the main JDK build.  But you can run this compiler in a
> number of ways,
> such as "java -jar javac.jar", or via a small shell script that
>  emulates
> javac, or
> by putting the compiler jar file on your JVM bootclasspath.
>
> However, to bring this back on topic, I was asking about the desire to
> use a Mac
> from those developers who might be interested in _working_ on the
> compiler, as
> compared to just using it.
>
> -- Jon
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> Patrick Wright wrote:
>> +1 from me, even if it just means compiler support to start with. The
>> long release cycle from Apple is a killer, I have a MacBook with dual
>> boot (and a VMWare image) with Ubuntu just to work with 6.0 features.
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>> Patrick
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