Chris Abbey wrote:
> How so? You're multi-billion dollar international corporation is staking
> it's bottom line on java2 for Linux? You were asssigned a project and sold
> your prof on the idea of doing it on Linux and in Java, but absolutely
> _have_ to have the latest and greatest whiz-bang features of Java2?
> Sorry, no sympathy here for either case....
>
Well, we're doing a project based on Jini. You need 1.2 for that, period. And
starting to develop now for something that'll be stable in Summer or Fall is a
good idea, methinks.
I've been using 1.2v1 since <insert release date>, and apart from the speed it
is remarkably stable. I'm running Cloudscape, Jini, Together/J, JPython and
Objectmatter on top of it as a part of my daytime job, and it holds up _very_
well. Compilation is slow, but by the time I get too frustrated I'll drop in
Jikes. Bottom-line: 1.2v1 gets a long way towards helping me stay on Linux, I'm
doing production on it.
That takes some pressure from the kettle. Still, I'm as anxious as the next guy
to know what's going on. No: to know whether something's going on. Silence is
not good, even when doing a voluntary project you need to communicate with your
"customers" (before you say I don't have a clue, check one of my websites,
www.sgmltools.org). Indeed, I'm not interested in the details, but I do think
that a weekly posting with a very short summary ("well, we've made some
progress but threads are still killing us") would give people the feeling that
the project is going along, work is being done, and that we can expect a
production Java2 for Linux sometime.
All your arguments are factually right. But pyschology is at work here, and
especially in an extremely important project like JDK porting (from my
perspective, it is the second most important project after the kernel and at
times more important), you have to account for psychology, whether you're doing
work on a voluntary basis or not. It just makes things much smoother.
Regards,
Cees
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