Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:29:38 -0400
To: java-linux@java.blackdown.org
From: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu>
Subject: Re: How long will it take to port 1.1.7 ?

Hi,

Sun has messed up its non-commercial source distribution once again!  I
received my e-mail to grab the 1.1.7 source archive and the name they sent
to me was simply not found.  I asked the other porters and the same thing
has held true for everyone who has tried to download anything!   Sun made
this exact smae mistake last time (with 1.1.6).  This is getting really
frustrating!  To top it off, Sun gives no contact e-mail address, only a
fax number for licenses.  So  it is next to impossible to inform them they
f'd up again.

If anyone works for Sun or has appropriate contact there, will you please
ask them to check their non-commercial source distribution system again.
None of the names they are sending out have been created yet!

As for how long it will take to port 1.1.7?

This will depend on how many changes were made to the source from 1.1.6.
Most of our diffs should apply directly but we will have to apply them by
hand to each file to make sure that our patch does not mess up a new fix
added by Sun.

Also the awt stuff seems to change alot each time and actually requires a
whole bunch of patches to make it work right under a wide variety of window
managers.

So once Sun actually fixes their process and gets us the source code and
assuming a reasonble number of changes (not a massive overhaul) we should
have something in two weeks or so (BUT THIS IS IN NO WAY A PROMISE), just
an estimate.

This all assumes Sun will fix their still broken process!

Kevin

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Kevin B. Hendricks
Associate Professor, Operations & Information Technology
School of Business, College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23187, kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu
http://business.tyler.wm.edu