Glad to see you turn up Simon. This whole argument is now just academic. Caolan has provide a GCJ port that will allow, as I understand it, all features to run. Therefore this is really a non-issue for beta 2.0.
I do think we need to ensure that The SO programmers avoid proprietary Java extensions in their changes. I believe that all programmers are endeavouring to manage this. This will allow continued GCJ support. RE should put some focus on this in the QA checklist. I believe that the primary 'hot point' of this discussion came from an issue where there was a feature delivered from the community in C++ but a different feature was redeveloped in Java some months after. Again I believe that there is more visibility as a direct result of the flame war that happened. We need to ensure that ideas are not taken and reinvented, we communicate with the developer and request that they take a different direction and why or request that we take over the work and why. I am not 'anti Java' I am definitely pro-support on all possible platforms. This includes the rather difficult policies of Debian, many of these policies lead to a far better product and therefore make it my distribution of choice, it definitely is not a small distribution in terms of installed base. We must ensure that we continue to work on co-operation, transparency, and ensuring that the community work is handled expediently. -- Ken Foskey OpenOffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
