On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:38:15PM -0500, Steve Grobe wrote: ><snip> > >So to resume what you are saying is that it's easier do download a big >file than a lot of small files. (JDK/JRE vs Gnome libraries). > Well, it's not the downloading that so bad as I have decent bandwidth. My point is (And I'm not trashing the gnome / kde projects) I installed jdk1.3, and to make a java app work it's quite simple. But even though I have a great deal of stuff installed for galeon, I still needed around 4 or 5 more ( not exactly small ) packages to support GNUCash. It eats up a good bit of disk space and time to compile all that stuff. And god help you if the dependancy is on a less-than-stable-devel-version of the package in question. Like I said, gnome and kde are great but don't discount java because it's memory handling is really slow. Never limit yourself to choices due to a preconcieved notion. I had gotten a bad taste in my mouth over a java experience I had a few years back and had shunned all java since. I have realized that this was pretty stupid, and am not so quick to decide something is a Bad Thing. -- Ben Lutgens Sistina Software Inc. "In the war against terrorism, there are no rear lines. We're all on the front lines" - William Cohen -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010925/3f715295/attachment.pgp