Resent-Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 19:23:32 -0500
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:22:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Tony Darugar <tdarugar@eb.com>
Subject: Re: Sound in pre2 works (and other status) (fwd)
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> 
> My guess is that you have never supported multiple users/programs and
> had to deal with the breaking one thing to "fix" another.

  You are correct.

> I'd personally rather minimize the variables that Randy has
> to deal with so that he can concentrate on debugging a working (get it
> working first; optimize later) Java development environment.  In my

  True, but only if the older stuff does not hinder development where the 
newer stuff would help it. I had the impression that newer kernels allow 
some things to be done in a more elegant manner (eg. threading?). Besides 
which, the JDK itself is FAR from stable, working software. It will take a 
while before the JDK settles to a stable state, and by that time we will 
most likely have a stable version of the 1.3 kernel.

  Anyway, didn't Randy say he'd already decided on 1.2? So this whole
thing is moot. The question I have now is how does Randy's port relate to
the Sun/Netscape one. The latest netscape has Java support for linux, so I
expect they have done at least a partial port themselves. Any 
news/insights on this?

Tony