Hello! I'm a new subscriber to the list but I thought I'd chime in quickly. I think that supporting the MSVM is fine, however don't drop support for the Sun VM. I haven't even looked at the freenet distribution yet, but I assume we use .bat files to launch the program. If so, why don't we just include two batch files.
One question that could probably be answered by me looking at the archives is... are we pretty much baselining on JDK 1.1? Any plans to move the project to Java 2? I understand there are lots of reasons for staying with a 1.1 codebase (MS VM support, for example) and I would never push for a premature adoption of the Java 2 platform but it does provide many significant API benefits. That said, I'm really interested in being involved in this project. I've got three years of real-world Java experience and about ten years of software development experience so I do hope to be able to contribute extensively once I come up to speed. If anybody has any suggestions on something to look at, let me know. Thanks! Ben Sandee tbsandee at pobox.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Clarke" <[email protected]> To: <freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 7:42 PM Subject: Re: [Freenet-dev] Windows JVM > Paul Kappler wrote: > > > > I suggest on our next release of the windows binary we use the Microsoft > > jview instead of making our beginner users download JRE's java. I think > > this will significantly increase our audience. Think about the number of > > people who have emailed the group with problem's with the wrong JRE > > installed. I would guess at least 100 times that many people have tried and > > given up. > > > > I have tried both. The only difference is the look of AWT. > > > > What do our windows users think of this? > > I have nothing against this in principal - since we are using M$ > software anyway (ie. Windows itself) we may as well go the whole hog if > it makes things easier. > > Is anyone aware of any potential technical disadvantages of doing this? > > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev > _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
