From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: can one make a static build Ada+GUI GTK application?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:09:00 +0000
Date: 2013-02-23T17:09:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyhal3ot3n.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kg9u8a$c52$1@speranza.aioe.org
"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:
> On 2/23/2013 2:06 AM, Simon Wright wrote:
>
>>
>> I think that it's the Java browser plugin that has the problem. Don't
>> know why it can't be fixed.
>>
>> Annoying for me, because ArgoUML won't run on Mac OS X from the
>> download; I have to run the webstart version, and that needs the Java
>> plugin to be enabled. Ugh.
Turns out I _can_ run ArgoUML via web start with the Safari Java plugin
disabled (it means it does some downloading from tigris.org every time
the ArgoUML starts, doesn't take long).
> well, may be so, but from reading things like this:
>
> http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/4016582/after-so-many-hacks-why-wont-java-just-go-away
> http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/18340857-452/apple-hacked-and-java-is-the-weak-spot.html
>
> and many other articles like it (simply go to google news and type
> Java, you'll get screens full of nothing but bad news for Java), I am
> scared to install it on my PC. I bought a new PC and made sure it has
> no Java on it. So I un-istalled windows that came with it, and did
> fresh install using my own windows OS disk that I bought
> separately. This way I know what I have there ;)
I looked at the first of your links, a lot of the comments say it's the
browser plugin that's the problem (executing unchecked downloads in a
buggy sandbox).
> If the problems were easy to fix with Java, they would have
> been fixed by now.
Should have used Ada.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-17 16:39 can one make a static build Ada+GUI GTK application? Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-17 17:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-02-18 23:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-19 4:33 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-19 20:47 ` slos
2013-02-22 4:56 ` Patrick
2013-02-22 23:29 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-23 8:06 ` Simon Wright
2013-02-23 8:22 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-23 17:09 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2013-02-23 12:47 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2013-02-23 13:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-02-25 23:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-28 0:00 ` Björn Persson
2013-02-28 0:46 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-28 8:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-02-28 12:59 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-28 13:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-02-28 23:16 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-03-01 8:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-01 10:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-03-01 13:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-01 22:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-01 2:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-01 8:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-01 11:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-03-02 0:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-03-02 7:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-02 17:17 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-03-01 2:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-01 2:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-02 19:00 ` Shark8
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