There aren't really any 'under the bottom' type of changes in the interfact
to the platform drivers planned before the next release, so you should be
safe enough. We will probably add the pluggable support for socket based
sources (HTTP, FTP) for the next release, but this should be an easy change
to catch up with later, since it won't require much effort on the part of
the platform driver code (unless you want to provide your own pluggable
socket support implementation using local services directly.) But our first
cut at it will likely be based on LibWWW, which is a freeware library that
everyone should be able to use.
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Dean Roddey
Software Weenie
IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley
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Jonathan McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/30/99 11:22:57 AM
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD patch (not complete yet)
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 06:33:39PM -0800, Sander van Zoest wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > I meant to do more work on this over the past few weeks, but seem to
> > have had other things taking up my time instead. Attached is a patch
> > against CVS from today. It adds various bits necessary for a FreeBSD
> > port.
> Great. I have several modifications as well. I will look into your
> changes and see if we can come up with a fully fledged patch.
I /knew/ there must be someone else having a go too. :)
> Let's correspond off the list (unless we need input from others) and
> get this port fully functional.
Ok, seems reasonable - anyone else who's interested in working on a
FreeBSD port should make themselves known now, otherwise we'll report
back when we've got something people can use.
> > sort some of the problems out (or moan at me to fix them. :). I
> > would also appreciate it if these changes could go in the CVS - I
> > know they don't work, but they shouldn't affect anything else.
> I would think, since we do not have CVS commit access, that we work
> this via patches for now, until we get a fully functional port.
I suppose. It's just tricky keeping the patches completely up to date
with the CVS tree IMO.
J.
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