Comments on: JavaOne: Jigsaw and Java Modularity

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:51:53 +0000

I’m aware of Macports but that’s not a “standard”. I suspect most consumers and even many devs may not have it installed. And I think Cygwin is even farther from a standard package manager on Windows – requiring that seems really weak to me.

I’m not sure how well the Windows/Mac update manager map to package management either. Seems like the functionality is overlapping but the goals are definitely different.

By: Chris Wash

Chris Wash — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:20:40 +0000

Macports will let you do package management on the Mac. Cygwin to some extent does this on Windows.

Also, both Windows and Mac have built-in update managers which provide this capability to a certain extent, albeit may be a proprietary medium/format.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:41:59 +0000

@Augusto: I think from the Q&A afterwards he mentioned that they didn’t know what it would do for Windows or Mac. That was the part I mentioned at the end of the post.

By: Augusto

Augusto — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:36:58 +0000

Hi Alex, you know I didn’t notice the jpkg command in the general session. Still not clear what this command would do on Windows.

The Q&A session that night went into a lot of discussion about native deployment, but unfortunately we didn’t get to talk too much about the tools.

I put some notes about the Q&A and other topics around this issue on my blog in case you are interested:
http://sellmic.com/blog/2009/06/11/classpath-hell-just-froze-over/