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Re: java plug-in (sablevm)



Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 16:55 schrieb Derek Broughton:
> On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:39, Michael Koch wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 15:47 schrieb Derek Broughton:
> > > If I can't use Swing, it's useless.  Sorry, but we're years
> > > past that.  I tried to use kaffe, but I have to go back and
> > > rewrite far too much.
> >
> > If you would provide more info we could work on your problem but
> > with so much information I can't help you.
>
> There's no "information" because I need a Java2 runtime.  When you
> guys promise a conformant system, I'll try it again, but you're so
> far out of date that it isn't worth the effort.  I stopped writing
> code to depend on 1.1 back around the turn of the century.
>
> I don't want to bash, but this is one of the major problems of OSS.
>   It's a catch-22 - nobody will use the software if it doesn't do
> what the non-free software does, but if nobody uses it developers
> can't improve it. --
> derek

Not providing java2-runtime virtual package does not mean we don't 
support most of the features. I don't say you have to rewrite your 
stuff for 1.1. I just told you to try with free runtime and report 
problems. If you want you can help us with writing patches too.


Michael
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