Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 01:34:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Byrne <sbb@ecomcon.sbay.org>
To: nmeyers@teleport.com
Subject: Re: JDK 1.2 Snapshots???

Nathan Meyers writes:
 > Tony Pujals wrote:
 > 
 > > Ouch!  ;-)
 > > 
 > > (But I'd still like to know what happened to the web site information?)
 > > 
 > > Tony
 > 
 > Fair enough desire. Those of us who've been on the list awhile have endured
 > frequent storms of "where is JDK1.2?" activity, and perhaps our fuses have
 > become a little short. We're all anxious for the bits; a perusal of the archives
 > will turn up those discussions and even some progress reports -- hence my
 > impatience with someone who admitted not doing the homework. Granted, it would
 > be nice to keep the site a bit more up-to-date -- that's also been discussed --
 > but that's not getting top priority at the moment.

I'll do something that I'm going to no doubt regret in the fullness of time:
disclose my plans ahead of time.  

My plan is to make a JDK 1.2 porting status web page that describes where we're
at with porting, which of the JCK sections we've passed, and on what
platforms.  I think it strikes a fair balance between the amount of time I need
to spend updating it, how much information is useful to people to read, and
not disclosing full details about the JCK (which I'm not legally allowed to
do).  

Please don't pester me or the list with "when will it be available" type
questions (for either JDK or my status page).  I'll make it available as soon
as I can; my time has been rather scarce lately, but I am doing what I can to
make more of it available to complete things like the status page.

Steve