Hi!
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 Nelson Minar wrote:
>Another interesting option is to see if we can get financial support
>for the Linux porters. I was sort of hoping Sun would do this, by
>donating some engineers' time, but maybe that's not come together.
>Maybe some of the companies relying on J
Nelson Minar wrote:
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> With 1.1.7, Linux is either the best or second best Unix platform for
> running Java. Solaris is obviously alright, but most of the other Java
> ports (SGI, Digital Unix, etc) have really bad problems.
Yes, the SGI port is really broken (especially the jit)
> Another
At 06:09 PM 2/12/99 +, you wrote:
>Am I the only person on this list who *doesn't* want to help finish the port?
>:-)
Nope, me neither! There aren't enough hours in the day or enough days in
the week. . . .
My hat's off to the guys who are doing it, though -- they deserve a lot of
credit!
T
> On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 10:49:30AM -0500, Nelson Minar wrote:
> > >Perhaps when the dust settles from the 1.2 port, it might be possible
> > >to arrange more formal and detailed visibility into what work is
> > >being done, what's under consideration, what's of interest, and progress.
> > I'd li
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 12:14:43PM -0500, Matthew Hunter wrote:
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> I've been paying attention to this as well, and (unfortunately) I
> haven't been able to find anything more specific than press releases
> about semi-open-source JDK development on Sun's site. I'd like to help
> with the port to
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 10:49:30AM -0500, Nelson Minar wrote:
> >Perhaps when the dust settles from the 1.2 port, it might be possible
> >to arrange more formal and detailed visibility into what work is
> >being done, what's under consideration, what's of interest, and progress.
> I'd like to see
I have to admit feeling excited but anxious about the 1.2 port. I'm forced to
do my development under Windows right now because 1.2 isn't yet available for
Linux.
The lack of visibility on the porting process makes it easy to forget that
the people doing the port are working very hard and not get
>Judging from the volume of "when will 1.2 be ready?" messages, it's
>clear that interest in the Blackdown work is reaching some sort of
>critical mass.
With 1.1.7, Linux is either the best or second best Unix platform for
running Java. Solaris is obviously alright, but most of the other Java
por
