I saw on the Kaffe website that there's a "Hall of Shame" section, which is planned to include places where Kaffe performs particularly badly.

I can think of another use for such a page as well: Documenting Free/Open Source applications that *actively* refuse to stop using private sun.* and com.sun.* APIs and thus will never work (fully) on Kaffe.

Doing this would serve two useful purposes:
- Documenting the fact that it's not Kaffe's fault that this application won't run, or doesn't have all its features working.
- Provide *bad* publicity for projects that do this - and therefore provide some leverage to persuade the projects that they should change their behavior. "You're in our hall of shame - we'll take you off if you fix this". People unrelated to Kaffe might also see projects there and independently exert pressure on the maintainers, too.


Thoughts?

Stuart.


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