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 far out of date that it isn't worth the effort.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 -- Homepage: http://www.worldforge.org/
