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Re: Intent to package japhar



On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 02:04:26PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote:

> Please, Japhar is in so early stages, it can hardly run *ANYTHING*, not to
> mention GUI applications. Lesstif is also not up to the task yet.
> Combining Motif-based NS with JDK linux port would be the best solution now,
> IMO. Especially taking into account the possibility to have JAVA as a
> plug-in to Netscape - Sun already released such a plug-in for win32 and 
> Solaris platforms - works with both Netscape (3 and up) and IE (3.? and
> up). In this case NS (Mozilla) can be in contrib and plug-in in non-free.
> 
> And *still* to have this - a lot of work should be done.

Good time to push free software, go and develop for japhar and
lestif.  (as well as for Debian, of course).  Don't stick with the
non-free non-alternatives but provide real alternatives.  Please.

Regards,

	Joey


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