WTH? Java user agreement sucks!

[LordRaiden]

Man, I was trying to install java 1.3.1 on my machine from source today (nix box, not my windoze POS) and in the process of what should have been a 5 minute compile and install, I ended up spending nearly 3 hours taking the install a step at a time, installing one file at a time, going out to sun's site, agreeing to really stupid garbage, then having to register like 5 times and agree to let them spam me to oblivion (thankfully I've got a nice handy spam mailbox for that.) and then finally, and only then, was I actually able to get all the pieces and parts to install it. I have Freebsd and I could have installed it right out of the ports with little issue, but stupid Sun decided to get all PMS like and force me to go through painful hoopes just to install their stupid Java SDK so I could load mozilla. Jerks.

 

[Evadman]

what?

 

[JetBlack69]

isn't the newest version 1.4.something?

 

[Martin]

why one file at a time? Last time I installed the JDK in linux, it wasn't much different than on windows...

 

[cmv]

Sounds like you made it more complicated than it is! Sun has never spammed me on the account I use at java.sun.com. Hopefully they fix the need to download tons of stuff in many places?

What exactly did you have to get besides the main source package?

 

[manly]

Why would you even bother compiling the SDK?

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: manly
Why would you even bother compiling the SDK?

Linux users get a kick of downloading source code for programs and compiling it. How else do you explain gentoo?

The SDK for 1.4 is one zip (or self extracting, I forget), the docs are another, the JRE is another. I can't imagine why the source would be any different, or why you're installing 1.3 in the first place.

 

[LordRaiden]

Well, mozilla required the 1.3.1 or else I would have gladly gone with 1.4, but 1.3.1 comes in so many pieces, first you have the initial download, then the patch to make the linux version work on freebsd, then some other stupid SDK thing, then yet another patch. It was crazy.