Richard Dale wrote:

>On Friday 16 April 2004 08:02, Dominique Devriese wrote:
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>>Anyway, it's of course up to you and the other kdejava developers to
>>decide on this.  In the end, I don't think it matters much, people
>>wanting to use the java bindings will not have too much trouble using
>>gcj/gij, unless they really want to use the latest JDK features, I
>>guess.
>>    
>>
>Well I develop on Linux PowerPC which is stuck on jdk 1.3.1, and probably a 
>dead port. There's no such thing as latest features for me, and I couldn't 
>use any 1.4 specific ones, let alone 1.5.
>
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Richard, have you checked out the Blackdown VM lately
I am not sure if they have PPC binaries for Linux but
the sourced probably are compilable.

>Sun are behaving strangly at the moment, and as they flail around trying to 
>make money out of java, and they could even start charging for the jdk if you 
>develop commercial apps with it. They're writing a closed source 3D desktop 
>instead of gnome, a swing app called Glow as a Evolution replacement, while 
>other sun employees are working on gnome itself. I think I've been reading 
>too many gnome blogs..
>
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Probably, Sun always has behaved strangely, but bear in mind and most 
Gnome blogs simply never name that. Sun does not have full control over 
java anymore, a consortium, the JCP has it.
And even normal people can participate. Btw. the Sun Java sources are 
reachable for everyone you just have to wade throug a lot of legal mumbo 
jumbo to get your hands on them.


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