On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:31:32PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 20:12 greycat> is nio going to be mandatory in 0.5.2? this is going > to screw kaffe users.... > 20:13 toad_> greycat: yes. kaffe users can fix the bugs.
This raises an important issue, it is the balance between our desire to keep Freenet runnable on free/open source JVMs, without holding ourselves hostage to their bug-fixing schedule. Personally, I think that we should make a good-faith effort to stick to APIs for which Open Source implementations are available, but if those OS implementations are buggy (ie. they fail to meet their API-contracts) then that isn't our problem, it is theirs, and people need to direct their complaints to them, not us. Now, there needs to be pragmatism here too - if the nature of this bug means that nobody can easily get Freenet working, ie. a bug in all widely used JVMs (ie. Sun's, IBM's, and Kaffe's) then we can't ignore that. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/
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