OpenJDK Project insatisfaction (original) (raw)

Emilio Aguilar Gutiérrez eag2001 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 14:29:44 UTC 2018

Hello

I have enrolled in this posting list to make receive to everybody my insatisfaction message (ohh)...

I am 49 years old and I am in the IT Development world since the 80's... I started with Spectrum 64...

I have learned Pascal, C, C++, SQL, Java, Javascript, and the list continues...

And I like the JVM idea (multiplatform virtual machine architecture)

But I got very dissapointed when I realized that to get OpenJDK from the source code, I have to install a previous JDK...

This means that I cannot get JDK just from a source code and a external tool...

So, I thought that JDK source code was useless... Because, If I have de JDK, why do I have to compile the JDK?... It is only worthy to make an upgrade... But... where is the seed? How can I get the initial seed?

In C world the things are different... You can build everything in some few steps:

  1. Get a OS (FreeDos or Minimal Linux) ^----This is an Achilles heel...
  2. Get an Asembler tool for that OS and CPU ^----This is an Achilles heel...
  3. Get an Assembler code for a C/C++ Compiler-Linker
  4. Generate a C/C++ Compiler-Linker
  5. Start Building C/C++ Compiler-Linker Better (DJGCC or GCC)
  6. Build all the libraries you need
  7. Create everything...

That should include:

  1. Java Clases and Libraries
  2. JVM
  3. javac
  4. JDK complete

Unfortunately... OpenJDK is not in this sequence...

And I feel that is need to solve the gap... Because, now, source-code is useless (except for upgrade)

I hope being able to express my idea clearly... And to convince somebody to review the current way of evolving... Because it have lost the connection with the origins.

Regards, Emilio Aguilar Gutiérrez Software Engineer & IT Teacher

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