I use IDEA on Linux, Windows XP and the Mac. So far XP seems to be the smoothest. I'd rather they focus their efforts on running smoothly on all 3, I'd rather be on Linux or the OS X, and I don't think 1.4 has anything to do with it. I would also rather have a JDK that works on all 3 OSes equally well, and not have the different feels from one OS to the next.
Much can be improved, smoothed, and stabilized using JDK 1.3.1 which is much more mature than 1.4. I see no problem with starting with the 1.3 JDK, IDEA has done a good job of separating the 2 by allowing us to build with what ever we want, and allowing them to run the JDK with what ever they think will make it run well ALL the time on any platform. If they run it with JDK 1.4 then you either get differences in look and feel and behavior from OS to OS, or one they'll have to jump through hoops to maintain the code for both JDKs making the IDE more sluggish and heavy. I think IDEA made the right choice and I hope they keep it that way, because obviously it's cost saving passed on to us. I'll tell you this, try running Netbeans and adding some jar files which you need for your builds, like the JAXB jar file I use for XSLT, it drives the Netbeans IDE nuts when editing XML files, because there is a conflict in how it loads its own classes v/s how a user wants to use his/her own classes for their own application, THAT should never happen, and IDEA does a good job of giving us that freedom. It's funny how sometimes we all have too much of a good thing, we have to find the little things to nit pick on. IDEA is a very nice piece of engineering, that's for sure! Keep up the good work, and the good discussions. Robert S. Sfeir Senior Software Architect Sfeir Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hani Suleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [Eap-list] J2SE 1.4 > I don't care about linux either, does this mean I now get to complain about > IntelliJ putting in effort to get IDEA working nicely under linux? > > On 5/4/02 10:38 am, "Sergei Rodionov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 09:20, Mike Aizatsky wrote: > >> First if all, J2SE 1.4 is not available on Mac platform. Even more, why > >> do you ever care which JDK is IDEA running on? JBuilder is running under > >> supplied JDK which is not 1.4 either. > > > > Dunno about Macs (dont use dont care 8)) > > > > but - 1.4 has support for mousewheel under Linux 8) It also sppse to be > > faster (i just measured with kernel 2.4.18. It beats my beloved IBM's > > jdk. Shame shame...). Plus there is hope of 1.4 supporting IDEA to > > actually resolve nasty focus issues. > > > > Also why we arguing - according to what been told on J1 - there sspse to > > be 2.6 sometime soon that will run nicely on 1.4. > > > > Cheers, > > Sergei > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Eap-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
