On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 14:17, Brad Felmey wrote: > 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.
Correction: It looks like JNI and other such won't work. -- Brad Felmey
