Did you get that message from lorin, a couple back? http://musubi.org/pipermail/bits/2001-October/000146.html
I think that might be your answer. cheers, sach On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Justin H. wrote: > You hit the nail right on the head, the main reason we're straying > away from that approach is the logistics of having a lot of > non-computer literate people download and install JVM. although > we are still considering it, its not too high on the list. > > --Justin. > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Sach Jobb wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > > The vast majority of our users are on Windows, but we also > > > dont want to alienate *nix and Mac users. So Im pretty much > > > just looking around at the possibilities. If we do move > > > to the EXE client app, I want to see if there are any > > > ways to support other OSs short of porting the code. > > > > Is there any reason why your company is not re-writing the whole thing as > > a pure java app? Hmm, well, i guess i can see if 95% of your users are m$ > > then the trouble of making them all download a JVM is probably not worth > > it (unless maybe it's bundled). What's it being written in? C? > > > > </snip> > > > > Cheers, > > sach > > > > > > -- /* Sach Jobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] %s/windows/linux/g */ "As far as i'm concerned the two biggest hassles in the world revolve around DNS and girlfriends." -- (name undisclosed to protect the innocent)
