On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:44:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had a single communication with the VP of engineering at inprise, telling
> me that they were interested in dedicated some resources to assist with the
> port. I provided him with Steve Byrne's contact information and that was
> the last that I heard of it. If Steve wasn't answering, I would have been
> more than happy to redirect the inprise contact to the primary porters.
Well, I'm glad that you can confirm our version. AFAIK we never got
anything back from Steve and we asked several times. I'm not blaming
Steve at all with this, we know you have daily jobs and you don't have
much time left. We just figured that there was nothing wrong in
attempting the port by ourselves. We needed 1.2.2 to run JBuilder and
at that time Blackdown didn't answer any of the questions asked by
several people in this list about plans for 1.2.2 and JPDA. After not
receiving replies to our offer of help we went ahead and tried the
port.
As todays we announced the availabily of JBuilder for Linux, free for
anyone to download, you can see that our effort was clearly targeted
for this deadline. I said it before in this forum, when a commercial
company makes plans for future products it needs reliable schedules
and plans. We knew we couldn't ask this to an organization of
volunteers and so we just decided to "roll our own" JDK. I believe
there's nothing wrong with this, your patches are public and we were
not the only ones that tried to apply them to 1.2.2. As today apology
from Sun proves this has been just a PR mistake, nobody wanted to rob
you of all the work you have done. As I said before the two JDKs
evolved, from the common starting point of the 1.2 patches, in
parallel. Witness is the different path taken in supporting some
features : we tried the native threads approach and left it behind
because the need for updated version of glibc. Other decisions where
made in similar fashion.
--
Paolo Ciccone
JBuilder dev.team
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