Hi, Quick suggestion: Don't release full distributions. Distribute patches on the Sun distribution and differential patches for each new release. Why? Save people's time, disk space and network traffic. I've just spent more than an hour downloading the 20MB Sun jdk1.2 source distribution only to find it's virtually useless. The Sun site doesn't clearly warn that their source distribution only covers Solaris and MSWin32. Having differential patches (like the Linux distribution) means that I can keep up with the latest version. With a dialup connection it's not feasible to repeatedly download a full distribution. eg. I have a 100MB/month all inclusive download limit. You're probably missing valuable testing feedback because of this problem. Patches also makes clear code ownership and you can release them under your own license too, if it matters. It would also useful to know in a separately FTP'able README: - Whether the JDK includes the JRE. - What software it depends on. - What your plans are. You're doing some good work with this port. Don't throw it away with a weak distribution strategy. HTH, Julian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
