On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:46:36AM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > B. All of the above plus FNP protocol changes so that the node can > detect its address from the network. Really bad, don't adapt the protocol to a bug in a specific (set of) version(s) of java.
> C. Integrate a third party java DNS resolver. > http://www.xbill.org/dnsjava/ is LGPL'd so license-compatible. But it > appears that it would need to be told the IP address of the local DNS > relay server at run time. It has code to autodetect it on Windows and > some UNIXen... it might work. It is 16,000 lines in 85 files of third > party code to keep up to date... hmm. Not pretty, but otoh it wouldn't have to be forever, just until sun fixes java. Ok, so perhaps it would be forever. > D. Use platform specific JNI or call external executables (also > platform-specific). I'm not entirely averse to this idea. Perhaps making a small seperate OS-functions library for things like this? (think along the lines of fec decoders and things too) > E. Debug Kaffe running Freenet. Definately worthwhile, even before this issue, though apparantly not everyone agrees. > F. Port to C++/C/COBOL/Brainfart. This has been discussed at length and > is presently impracticable. I have just heard from reliable sources that ook! (brainfuck for urang utans) has a .net version. I think this should be seriously considered, poked and then pelted with faeces. -- Frank v Waveren Fingerprint: 21A7 C7F3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]|stack.nl|chello.nl] ICQ#10074100 1FF3 47FF 545C CB53 Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 7BD9 09C0 3AC1 6DF2 _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
