First, no I haven't read the source; my views are based on my
thoughts.
Why has it been so difficult to port Sun's Java2 source to Linux? I
was under the impression that
a) Sun isolated their platform-dependent parts,
b) all the rest of the code is in portable, standard C, and
c) the source code is fairly well-organized.
I would also tend to believe that Sun would probably use POSIX and/or
de-facto system calls for system-related tasks such as threads and
I/O.
The current "release" is still labelled a pre-release, suggesting that
it should definitely not be used to do real work. Even the porting
team says that one should use it only if you are "willing to take some
risk". So what are the major problems in porting this thing and why
has it taken so many months without the end in sight?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
