Hi Brian, hi list, > Yea, I think the point for me would be to keep Classpath's java hackers > out of the business of writing native code, and especially out of the > business of porting native code for such common idioms as generic file > operations, network operations, etc. BTW, Torsten, the man who first wrote the target native layer, mostly works on native code and porting of this to platforms you would not dream of. He is hardly a 'Classpath java hacker'. If the world was so nice that posix and autoconf is the solution to everything, then such work would hardly be necessary. But this seems to be a little behind the horizon of the brave GNU world. Man, all this narrow-mindedness sets me up, I think I better go back to java hacking ;-) Roman -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil Url : http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath/attachments/20060131/fd401cc4/attachment.pgp