On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 06:29:47AM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > On 09/10/10 14:21, David Fawcett wrote: > > > > > > On 9 October 2010 15:13, Lisa Milne <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > > Please don't recommend mono, it's just a Bad Idea: > > http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono > > > > > > So whats the solution? > > Java works for me. It has interfaces to all of the appropriate > low-level libraries on both Linux & Windows, and it's not patent > encumbered like Mono. It also has an outstanding ecosystem of software > which has grown up around it, particularly the various Java components > of the Apache project.
Raw mode has been a problem in Java for about forever (1996) http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4008589 http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4008589 http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6351276 I think Python is the (better) answer. But this feature IS hard to do cross-platform, because the underlying model differs so much. Matt -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
