Kevin,
I totaly agree with you and fully appreaciate and am greatful of
the work that has has gone into giving the Linux population
the JDK's to date (I of cause am looking forward to 1.2), I am sure
most of us can cope with using 1.1.7 etc.. for the time being.
I am also sure that the porting team are pulling their hair out
over 1.2 as I am sure they would like to use it too.
All I can say is keep up the good work and place in big bold
letters on the linux java pages '1.2 is not yet available'.
But if someone out there has sucessfully build a linux jdk1.2
I hope they inform the porting team, so that the team can
speed up the offical beta release and with luck stop all
these crazy emails.
Matt
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:22:06 -0500
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: JDK 1.2 TimeTable Not Possible Yet, Status Report
>
> Hi,
>
> In an attempt to stop the flood of "when will jdk 1.2 be out", here is a
> short status report:
>
> The JDK 1.2 runs "reasonably well" under native threads for x86, PPC and
> Sparc. Work on other processors is continuing. BUT there are problems that
> need to be resolved before we can ship. The most pressing concern is a
> non-obvious problem in native threading (or linuxthreads?) which causes
> hangs on single processor machines and seg-faults on SMP machines. This
> prevents the JCK from completing which in turn prevents us from shipping it.
>
> We are attacking the problem in 2 ways. Dr. Phill Edwards, the author of
> the 1.1.7 native threads is now looking at it (1.2 and 1.1.7 use different
> native_threads implementations). Others are porting/fixing green_threads
> to work on JDK 1.2. If we can pass the JCK under green_threads we can ship
> and fix the native threads in a later release or visa-versa.
>
> So we can't actually quote a delivery date. As Steve pointed out, we
> *must* pass the JCK *before* we can ship anything!. Until these problems
> are solved, we simply can't get the JCK to run to completion without
> hanging.
>
> We are *all* working on the problem and hope to come up with a solution
> soon, but we simply can not promise any one date.
>
> Please be patient. Also, please remember, we are all volunteers with other
> "real" jobs that must come first. We are doing our best.
>
>
>
> Kevin
>
> Blackdown Porting Team!
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Kevin B. Hendricks
> Associate Professor, Operations & Information Technology
> School of Business, College of William & Mary
> Williamsburg, VA 23187, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://business.tyler.wm.edu
>
>
