[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ok, JDK doc sais "Since: 1.2". Often a compilation on JDK 1.2 is forgotten I think :-)
Jan
Yes, especially since jdk1.2.2 does not work on FedoraCore2 !.
Neither does VMware, which is why I am a happy suse9.1 user. The problem with a full OSS platform is that it works best if the end user can rebuild everything from scratch to work with it; closed source apps -java runtime, vmare, Oracle, NVidia drivers, are troublesome in that regard. As are laptops, for different reasons, but 'the bios isnt open' is one of them.
Having actually seen (and rebuilt laptop BIOSes), I understand why they are kept closed. It isn't just for safety -screw up the keyboard controller and your battery can get overcharged, which leads to *Bad Things* happening, things which at best result in the death of the battery. It is because laptop bioses are the ugliest code humanity has seen, all #defined C designed to maintain a single codebase supporting 20 different laptops, with a build process that involves copying source files with the same name from three+ different trees (based on makefile options) to create the final source tree that is then built and linked.
Getting back to java1.2, does anyone in the dev team have or run a copy? I forsee a need to have a backwards looking gump build, as well as the 1.4 tester.
-Steve
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