>>>>> Riyad Kalla writes:
Riyad> I would like some indication FROM Blackdown for the
Riyad> following things just so I'm not so in the dark:
Riyad> - The current status of the 1.2 JDK
The basic issues are still the same: the native threads vm, and the
color depths (actually various X servers seems to report bogus values
which confuse the image code).
Riyad> - If they are pleased with its progress
Riyad> - If the desire to do it is still there
Yes.
Riyad> - What they need from US to help out
Riyad> - What the future looks like.
The JDK 1.1.8 is nearly finished (the remaining problem is the native
threads vm).
The next JDK 1.2 release will be 1.2.1 because AFAIK there still is no
JCK testsuite for 1.2.2.
Other stuff we currently work on are: JAI, Java3D, JMF, plugins for
1.1 (to be released with the JDK 1.1.8) and 1.2.
This is quite a lot of stuff, so if you would like to help please
contact me. You should have some basic knowledge of Java, but what is
more important is C. I really would like to hear from people who can
do low level X programming (I don't think Sun will fix the color
depths problems soon), pthreads programming (with some knowledge of
the LinuxThreads internals), and/or network programming.
Please reply only if really intend to actively work on the JDK, I'm
really tired of 'volunteers' who never contribute anything.
As for the donations, this is something Steve has to comment.
Basically, I think it is a good idea. E.g. people want to have Java3d
working with their various 3D cards, we don't have such cards, so this
stuff is hard to test. The same applies to the interaction with
commercial X servers and other commercial software.
Juergen
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Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Porting Team
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
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