In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stuart Ballard wrote: > 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.
Yes. t would be good. Although it makes only sense for Free/Open software as you say. > 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. It must not be made in a rude manner though. No ranting. Maybe there were reasons of using private stuff, maybe contacting the developers of that specific software is also a good idea. -R _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
