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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: can one make a static build Ada+GUI GTK application?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:09:00 +0000
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Date: 2013-02-23T17:09:00+00:00
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"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.