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Re: more Java plugin woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Sep 17 14:29:23 2002
Message-Id: <200209171829.OAA05319@dit.mit.edu>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:12:03 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:29:20 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>Alex, the change you requested (below) is in and will propagate in the
>usual fashion.
Thanks!
>I don't think special-casing by platform is going to help anything, not
>unless you care to hard-code one platform to one older version of Java and
>another platform to another older version. Is there some older version of
>Java we can say is generally considered stable for everyone and
>everything, make THAT the default, and tell people to use a local
>NPX_PLUGIN override if they want something more bleeding edge?
Unfortunately I don't think there is a single "known good" version for
both Sun and Linux (not worrying about SGI). The only "known good" 1.3
plugin on Suns is the one we were running about 2 weeks ago before the
1.4.0_01 update- 1.3.0. I think we should set the Sun default back to that.
The full /afs path is:
/afs/athena/software/java_v1.3.0/distrib/sun4x_58/jre/plugin/sun4x_58/ns4
We don't have a Linux plugin for that release- and since the Linux
plugin was apparently broken until we made the change about 2 weeks ago, we
don't have a history of use for Linux. I think the best thing to do is
to pick the latest 1.3.1 release for Linux- that would be 1.3.1_02. The full
/afs path is:
/afs/athena/software/java_v1.3.1_02/distrib/i386_linux24/jre/plugin/i386_linux24/ns4
So, unless anyone objects, could you please set the Netscape 4.78 defaults as
above? Users who want other plugins should have the option to set it
with NPX_PLUGIN_PATH.
Thanks again,
Alex
