On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 12:04, Todd Lyons wrote: > Brad Felmey wrote on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:17:00AM -0500 : > > the candidate for the transition to gcc-3.x. It would depend > > on how fast the community is switching to gcc-3.x. Right > > now, we are looking at 1.4.2 being the transition release. > > Let me be the ID10T and ask the obvious. > > Why not release a j2re-1.4.1-gcc30 and a j2re-1.4.1-gcc31? It will > become a FAQ "I installed the latest version and it doesn't work", but > at least one will be available. > > I assume that those with sun logins are making similar comments.
I dunno why they don't just permanently statically link it. I mean, Java is already preposterously huge as a download, and the static links can't be *that* much larger, then you just don't care what system it runs on. -- Brad Felmey
