On Apr 21, 9:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Subject: RE: ...
> Well stated. I congratulate you on your directness
> and your level-headedness.
> ...
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Abbey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Directness, sure, but level-headedness?
It seemed to me only slightly more polite than saying:
"If you dont like what you're given, shut up & go away!"
I really wanted to stay out of this; I'm really torn between
two positions: It's counter-productive to insult & hassle
the people doing the porting, yes. But, it's also counter-productive
to insult & hassle (or ignore) the potential users and would-be Java
evangelists.
A lot of repetitive, already answered, questions get asked here.
But a lot of repetitive NOT answered questions get asked here, too.
Like glibc 2.0/2.1, like source diffs, ...
I am _extremely_ appreciative and grateful for the great work the
porters have been doing. They're doing it for free; they have
jobs & lives too! I can't say enough there.
But... if I'm bleeding edge enough to want jdk1.2beta1, I've
probably got glibc 2.1 too... or WHATEVER: there's no ONE "Linux".
So I can't run jdk1.1.7. jdk1.2 runs, but Swing W/O JIT !?? :<
Really, it's the SITUATION that's frustrating; It's not the porters
fault, not entirely even Sun's. But us Users have got to sit on our
hands and wait. We can't help w/ porting even if we want to. We can't
compile it for our own system.
And to make it worse, we dont even know what (or IF) is happening.
Please give us regular status updates; even "Nothing new this week".
Hopefully this will be taken in the spirit I intended;
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