I always thought the open edition was a version released by tvt but wasn't as advanced/good as the custom edititon and were both done exclusively by tvt.
Interesting.. Thanks for the info. -Cameorn On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Edouard G. Parmelan wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:16:39PM +0000, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > > I used to work for Transvirtual, the firm responsibly for kaffe. I > > personally, several times, asedk them about PowerPC support. They > > seemed interested, but whenever I tried mentioning we should get some Macs > > for development, they lost interest. > > I'm a core team member of Kaffe (kaffe.org). > > Even if Transvirtual had released there Custom Edition to open source > last summer (tvt-kaffe), Open Edition (kaffe.org) is not dead and > Debian use it. Merge process of these two releases is not yet > started. Last time I announce that I have start this process, TVT ask > me to delay this task as Peter is rewriting AWT subsystem (the first > part I want to merge). For now, tvt-kaffe have improvements but > org-kaffe have too, as iconv(), Alpha JIT for OSF/1 (expect GNU/Linux > Alpha soon), PowerPC, Irix 6.4 (interpreter only), BigDecimal... > > Tim and I expect a merge of tvt and org but it seems to me that TVT > are focused on PocketLinux :-( > > Missing Kaffe for Debian PowerPC is more or less a Debian maintainer > attidute as kaffe-1.0.6 work on PowerPC with libffi. And last summer, > one day after release, Kevin B. Hendricks submited a native PowerPC > version of syscallMethod to get ride of libffi. Since then, Kaffe > works on GNU/Linux PowerPC. > > > BTW, did you see my mail on this list about instaling Mac OS X, > GNU/Linux and NetBSD on same iBook ? Yes, I will switch from Intel to > PowerPC, with writing PowerPC JIT in mind :-) > > tvt-kaffe vs org-kaffe is more or less like FreeBSD vs NetBSD :-) > -- > Edouard G. Parmelan > http://egp.free.fr > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
