On 05/26/2011 09:38 PM, schmidtd wrote:
Why on earth does it need to BE so complex? I cannot think of any other language runtime environment that's even in the same order-of-magnitude.I've seen a couple. It kinda depends on what you grow up with. MVS (z/OS) probably seems complicated to some folks, too. ;-)
Thinking back on it, my first DB2 install/configure experience (back around v5 or v6) was about on the same level of frustration. But there at least the documentation was in one place. All 95 lbs of it :-). In fairness, IBM has done a huge amount of work on improving the initial experience with v8 and v9.
For reference, this was the shell wrapper required (assumes the AC jar in the current directory and a Ubuntu system of recent vintage): #!/bin/bash java \ -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni \ -cp /usr/lib/java/swt-gtk-3.5.1.jar:AppleCommander-1.3.5.jar \ com.webcodepro.applecommander.ui.AppleCommander \ -swtFantastic. Now it's in the vast memory of the interwebs.
It's hard to believe that I'm the first person who ever tried to run the AC GUI on Linux. But, hopefully the next will trip over this thread.
Steve