Riyad Kalla wrote:
>My intent here is not to stirr up emotions or cause an argument. But after
>12 unanswered emails I feel I have a right to comment. And I don't have
>patients for flames over this, so please don't send them. If you were in my
>shoes you'd be as frustrated.
As you may know, the porting effort is being done by many people, all of
which have full-time jobs (and families) that also demand some time.
In fact, it is why I have done relatively little in the JDK 1.2 port -
a number of big work related projects have been killing my time.
>Is anyone else a bit disappointed and/or concerned about Blackdown's
>progress with JDK1.2? I find no other means of seeing where the current
>project stands because the only information posted on the website is more
>than a month old and all my inquiries about it over the last few weeks have
>all gone unheeded. I find their efforts worth noting, but when I've asked
>this question in the past I get the response of "do it yourself if your so
>anxious" which I find amazingly stupid and a waste of time. What goes into
>porting Java to Linux? I admit I am not farmiliar with the process,
>however I would still like an up to date record of their current progress.
There is a lot of work making a quality port. It was a reasonably complex
process just getting it running in the first place. (The bootstrap process
is rather tricky...)
Some of the problems are, what some would call, esoteric. They have to
do with race conditions in the threads and performance issues and the
like. (Threading on Linux is very different than Solaris and there are
some issues with the way some signals are handled and...) For most of us,
these types of issues are critical for release. (Having the JDK not be
reliable is not a good thing)
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- http://www.nextbus.com
My place on the web ---> http://www.users.fast.net/~michael_sinz
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