Re: any reasons to recompile kernel?

On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Maurice Ling wrote:

> A very specific question will be this: if I do not care about user  
> add-ons like widgets etc etc, but I want to install Java 1.5 into  
> my "OSX 10.3", is kernel compilation and installation of Darwin 8 a  
> way to get there?

No it isn't. Darwin 8 has only a subset of what makes Mac OS 10.4...  
well Mac OS X 10.4. For example Cocoa, Carbon and Quartz don't exist  
in Darwin and all of those are used either directly or indirectly by  
Apple's Java implementation. Even if it did have those so many other  
dependencies exists that anything you attempted to assemble with  
likely to be rather unstable.

If you want Java "1.5" your best and basically only avenue is to  
purchase Mac OS X 10.4.

Note Mac OS 10.4 has far more in it then just UI level changes, it  
has substantial improvements under the hood that make it a great  
upgrade even if you don't care about "widgets etc etc".

-Shawn