On Tue, 4 May 1999 18:44:51 +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: >On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 01:19:43PM +0000, dog wrote: >> Michael.Sinz wrt: >> > The Blackdown porting group has been thinking about changing the way the >> > Linux Java Wrapper works so that it automatically detects if it should >> > try to run the "X11" version of Java or not. (Meaning the version that >> > has the AWT peers in it) >> > >> > The concept is that if DISPLAY is not set it will automatically set >> > the NS_JAVA variable to TRUE. >> > >> > ... >> > The question is: Is there a strong feeling against such a change? > >I think this the Right Thing , please go ahead with this change. > >> absolutely not. this would work very well. >> >> also your commitment to producing a jdk117 that will run with glibc2.1 will >> be very warmly greeted. > >FYI a pre-117_v2 is already available at http://www.wisp.net/~kreilede/ >and it works like a charm on my Debian potato system (glibc 2.1.1). Yup - Juergen did the glibc 2.1 changes (plus some more AWT/Window Manager things) We are just getting a "roundtoit" for testing and releasing. (BTW - we have had very few roundtoits. A few square ones but otherwise not many at all - and most have been placed into the Java 2 pile which seems to never have enough.) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
