Well, if you stop supporting 1.1.8 then you will remove FreeBSD from the
list of platforms that you support.

the only licensed binary for FreeBSD is 1.1.8

note that there is a functioning version of 1.3.1 for FreeBSD 4.5, but
it's not *licensed* yet, so it has to be built from src and the src has to
be obtained from sun each time ( so that the license get's clicked
) and the patches have to be obtained from somewhere else and you
have to install the linux 1.3.1 binary to build it, so that means
that you have to install the linux emulation/compat stuff...blah,
blah, blah. 

it's not an impossible process, but it's a pretty major
barrier to entry. :-(


so i would ask you to continue to support 1.1.8 unless it's just too
painful.

tnx!

johnu

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Time to pick this topic up: should we still keep 1.1.8 compatibility, when
> JDK 1.4 is coming out?
> 
> To keep such compatibility
> - We can't use new functionality provided by new JDK's (for example,
> collection interfaces); and
> - We have to sacrifice performance. Hashtable's and Vector's are used,
> which are (painfully) synchronized.
> 
> We think it's time to move on to JDK 1.2. Anyone has any concerns about it?
> 
> Cheers,
> Sandy Gao
> Software Developer, IBM Canada
> (1-905) 413-3255
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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