RE: JCVS Requests :-)

[Tim Endres <time@ice.com>]

On Fri, Aug 6 1999, Andrew Thompson wrote:
Andrew> Please don't! At least not yet...
Andrew> 
Andrew> JDK 1.2 has *huge* memory and performance issues at the momment, and you
Andrew> would imediately cut off every platform other than Windows and Solaris.
Andrew> Many other platforms have "nearly complete" or "in progress" JDK 1.2
Andrew> implementations, but I'm not aware of any other finished version other
Andrew> than the 2 Javasoft releases. (please correct me if I'm wrong)
Andrew> 
Andrew> Also our deployment platform is JDK 1.1.x and I'd rather not have jdk
Andrew> 1.2 on my machine too, its got an annoying habit of making it difficult
Andrew> to run applications under 1.1 because it hacks around with the registry
Andrew> so 'java' and 'javac' always refer to the 1.2 versions, unless you
Andrew> explicitly do 'c:\jdk1.1.X\bin\java' absolutely everywhere.

Do not worry. The client layer, which is the client/server "kernel" will never
be dependent on Java 2. Further, I do not intend to "commit" jCVS app to Java 2
until I have all of the features in that I want. So, you will not be paying any
big price except for giving up the features that require Java 2 anyway. Besides,
it is just as likely we will be looking at Java 3 at the rate I have been able
to code jCVS these days! :(

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