Tip for Intellij IDEA 3.0.5v2 with 1.4.1-p3^H4

Panagiotis Astithas past at noc.ntua.gr
Wed Nov 5 04:13:28 PST 2003


Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> hi,
> I don't think that we have any specific schedule.  And I can't talk on
> behalf of Foundation, but can share recent progress with my work (i.e.
> porting of jdk1.4.x)
> 
> In last weeks (followed -p4 release) I have complete with JDK 1.4.2 port.
> It's now in BSD/Java CVS and soon we'll have new patchset released.  I
> also spent fair amount of time on catching bugs inherited from 1.4.1 port
> as well as ones added with new java sources.  Most of stopers are resolved
> now, many IPv6 issues detected and worked around or wrapped with exceptions.
> Trouble areas now are Audio support, mozilla plugin and javaws.  There's
> also issues with FreeBSD-5 support, but I am working on this.
> 
> PS: According to binary release of JDK1.4.2 -- we are almost there.  I have
> finished with JCK tests this weekend (for -STABLE based jdk build), so it's
> up to Foundation to rehash legal issues with Sun now.

Excellent news!
Can we assume then that a binary release of 1.4.1 will be skipped, in 
favor of a 1.4.2 one?
On a side note, I have a running IPv6 environment here at work, so I 
could to some testing if you were interested.
-- 
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece



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