Well another post suggests that Gimp *no longer* has an X11 requirement. So perhaps it's the skill and dedication of the porter not to bring in a kitchen sink of dependencies.
I've used several Gtk+ applications on Windows XP such as Geany, Pidgin and GIMP. All integrate more than adequately without issue, save preferring a weird file dialog instead of the Windows native one.
dd if=myinstaller.iso of=/dev/sdX
works for me...
I'm not saying there aren't use cases just that whether supporting those interests strategically benefits Oracle enough to continue development at anything more than a snail's pace.
If Oracle make there money on _the_server_ then a FOSS desktop application isn't going to receive priority unless a paying customer demands shiny new features. That's the difference with the stewardship of Sun, who acquired various pieces of software and open sourced them for $0 revenue.
It possible VirtualBox isn't receiving much love because MS are including virtualization tools out of the box in current versions of Windows?
Thus what incentive do they have to continue funding it?
Dairy cattle survive just fine eating grass.
Revisit in Android 5.0 where dalvik is replaced by an AOT compiler.
If you're saying 'java is evil' then yes, it's distributed by an 'evil' corporation.
But the fact still remains it's a deployment issue rather than a technological one. What Windows needs is a decent package manager.
chocolatey.org
If the standard method for installing software such as libreoffice were using a package manager with a 'private JRE' dependency built from openjdk sources then there would be no need for Oracle crapware.
You may say I'm a dreamer...
You do know the JVM and the browser plugin are two separate things?
Oracle may choose to bundle them together in a fancy installer for Windows but the plugin itself is unnecessary unless you load Applets.
e.g. on debian, 'Java' is packaged as openjdk-7-jre, while Applet functionality is provided by icedtea-7-plugin.
Cone of Silence?
Well that's good for the presidential budget - plenty of cheap spare 747 parts for decades!
NPAPI is on life support, with Mozilla whitelisting some plugins temporarily
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugi...
B2G doesn't support NPAPI and I doubt servo will either.
Wow you have ANSI color on your terminal?
luxury.
I once marked CS homework and uncovered cheating for an 'individual' assignment.
A group of students had debug comments in their code - the giveaway? spelling mistakes.
Coding standard adoption can provoke holy wars but at the end of the day, you're a team. Though idiosyncratic decisions irk me, such as prefixing instance variables with underscore. Any decent editor will make such a distinction between scope via colours.
Pretty printing tools and style checkers present in any decent editor will enforce coding standards with minimal fuss.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.