FW: Re: Kawa MacOS 9

["Robert D. Skeels" <athene at earthlink dot net>]

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From: Robert D. Skeels <athene@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:01:25 -0700
To: <r.p.polfreman@herts.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Kawa MacOS 9

06/25/2002 06:02, Richard Polfreman r.p.polfreman@herts.ac.uk:

> I've been looking at your helpful Kawa Mac pages, but the Mac distribution
> files appear to be missing

Sorry, I forgot I moved many of those files. I will get them back up soon.
For now, I have stable .jar files of versions 1.6.91, 1.6.95, 1.6.96, and
1.6.97 available at:

    <http://homepage.mac.com/robertdskeels/FileSharing1.html>

Unfortunately, 1.6.97 was the last version that ran under OS9. In fact, the
compile I have is just prior to revisions in 1.6.97 that cause the startup
errors you are seeing with 1.6.99. I suggest you bring this up on the kawa
mailing list. Per is so busy now that he doesn't address a lot of issues. I
brought up this problem months ago, and even gave him the output from a
diagnostic patch he had me compile into the distribution, but the problem
was never solved. I don't do java, so I can't fix it myself.

I would really like to see all kawa versions run under OS9 until Per finally
requires the Java 2 platform for kawa. However, I don't see this happening
with Per being so busy. We need someone who knows java willing to fix the
issue.

> The jar works OK on MacOS X (well kind of, console behaviour seems a bit
> erratic....)....

This is a known issue that surfaced when Apple switched to the 1.3.1 version
of the JDK/JRE. I addressed the kawa mailing list with the problem, but
there was no response. Hard to say if it is Apple's or kawa's fault in this
instance since kawa run fine under newer versions of the JDK on other
platforms. I had to switch to using emacs when using kawa because of this.
The terminal works as well. The upside to the newer versions of kawa is that
they no long require MacOSX specific switches at configure time. However, I
don't feel that makes up for the loss of the gui repl.

((lambda (args) (display args)) "
    Robert D. Skeels
     athene@earthlink.net")