Versions of Java revisited

[Ben Laurie]

"Mark S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> At 11:56 PM 8/18/00 , Paul Snively wrote:
> >on 8/18/00 12:29 PM, Mark S. Miller at markm@caplet.com wrote:
> > > Speak now or forever forsake 1.1.
> >
> >Oh, the hell with it. Move to 1.3 and I'll see you on MacOS X someday.
> 
> As Paul (representing the classic Mac) and Ben (representing FreeBSD) were
> the only holdouts last time, unless someone else speaks up quickly, I hereby
> declare that E > 0.8.9 will only support Java >= 1.2.

Since FreeBSD is moving that way I'm not objecting. I'd be happier if we
were there already, but such is life.

> Sometime after E 0.8.4 I introduced a performance bug in the comm system
> that's been difficult to diagnose and fix with the current implementation.
> Now I get to simplify the Object-Pluribus implementation (the proxy-comm
> system) by using 1.2's weak pointers.  I'll be much happier debugging a
> simpler implementation.  Yeah!
> 
> Until FreeBSD does 1.3, E will continue to support 1.2.x.  Therefore, we still
> cannot make use of 1.3's deflectors (interface proxies).
> 
> Btw, what do y'all think of https://sourceforge.net/ ?  Any experience with
> it?  Should E development move there?

Sourceforge is popular, and for good reason it seems to me. But, OTOH,
if you can already run CVS and a mailing list, it isn't clear to me what
it offers.

Cheers,

Ben.

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