On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 04:39:07PM -0500, Derek Glidden wrote:
> Paolo Ciccone wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 03:47:23PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I though the current 1.2.2 rc was 3, not 1? Have Sun picked up an older copy
> > > to release on their site?
> >
> > The Sun/Inprise port is not the same of Blackdown's, that's why the release
> > number is different. The Sun/Inprise port is actually the latest codebase
> > from Sun and includes several fixes to Swing that were found in the stock
> > 1.2.2 release.
>
> Not to dis you or your company's efforts, but if this is actually a
> "clean" implementation of the JDK straight from Sun sources and never
> having touched the Blackdown code, then I find the contents of
> jdk1.2.2/jre/README.linux to be rather suspicious:
>
> README.linux for Java 2 SDK Version 1.2.1 for Linux, pre-release 1
> Steve Byrne
> 29/8/1999
>
> This is the Blackdown Java-Linux port of the Java 2 SDK Version 1.2.1.
>
> [etc...]
>
> It looks like either someone at Inprise or at Sun isn't playing fair.
We actually are. We didn't say that this is a clean port, in fact we
are giving credit to Blackdown for the port. This has been done with
the press at the Java Expo in New York and I personally posted here
and on /. about our use of the early patches from Blackdown. The story
is simple, we took the patches for 1.2.1 and started working on
1.2.2. From that early effort, fundamental to start the port, we
actually added a lot of other stuff. The AWT/Motif for example has
been completely replaced and a lot of other fixes have been added.
This is truly a collective achievement, starting froim the early
effort of Blackdown and then accelerated by Sun and Inprise and
brought to a level of stability and performance that we feel is
acceptable before the release of 1.3/Hotspot.
My previous post, that you quoted, was about the RC1/RC3 naming, the
two ports are indeed different and I wanted to clarify some of the
confusion.
--
Paolo Ciccone
JBuilder dev.team
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