Re: Jonah on UN*X? (fwd)

Ed Posnak <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Nov 1998 11:21:16 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.pfl
Organization Xetex Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>

[email protected] wrote:

> We've announced our intent to release a Solaris port of the code around the
> time of the final NT release, so if you can wait until then, Jonah still
> might work for you.

John's comment succinctly captures the reason why people are looking for a pure
Java implementation: so they won't have to wait for a port to their operating
system.  Also so they won't have to compile the code if they don't want to.

ejp