I agree with Matt, on the purely selfish reasons. There
are lots of places to ask generic questions, and the main
ones I know of that Linux-specific questions get dealt with
are this one (focussed on Sun's version of Java) and the
java-discuss list hosted for GCJ/GCC users/developers/...
(clearly not Sun's implementation of that ISO spec :-).
Though I agree it's good to have confirmation that this list
is alive. I think it would be 100% fine to see discussions
here that provide real solutions which happen to involve Linux
native code ... say, some networking classes that provide real
access to routing information. It could provide lists of all
the "local" network interfaces a host has, and ways to monitor
their state change (as an example). Yes, that example would
relate to at least one of the threads Matt listed below.
Existence of working solutions that are Linux-specific has
already gotten Sun to start JCP processes in at least one
are (USB), for those who care about that stuff. And for
anyone working in open source, it doesn't necessarily matter
whether such "vendor legislated" APIs ever happen ... it can
even be irrelevant if you don't want to assign the IP to Sun.
- Dave
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From: Matt Welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Request: No more generic Java questions
>
> I am also counting all of the responses. The following threads in the
> last month or so I consider unrelated to Linux:
>
> UnknownHostException (3 messages)
> follow-up Re: UnknownHostException (2 messages)
> Is it possible to start Java application ... (2 messages)
> Is there a solution? (1 message)
> Starting java (1 message)
> Template makefile for Java? (2 messages)
> How to print String to default Printer, Help (2 messages)
> Pablo- configurar imap (2 messages)
> localhost ip (12 messages)
>
> The list goes on. In fact the majority of messages to this list have
> nothing to do with Linux. All I am asking is for people not to send
> replies to these "generic" questions to the entire list; we don't need
> to see those responses since they aren't relevant.
>
> Matt Welsh
>
>
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