Re: Yarn source code [Version Control?]

From: Jerry McBride (mcbrides@erols.com)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 23:16:49 -0400

>>Why would you want to port the yarn code to Linux?
>
>Because we like YARN and don't like Windoze?
>

I don't do windows either. In fact, OS/2 is in everything I work with... :')

>> Why not to something more
>>attune to the Internet as a whole and do it in java? I for one, have been
>>slaving away, trying to write my own version of Yarn in java and it's been
>>quite a task.
>
>Didn't you just answer your own question? :-)
>

Not really, since I don't have the yarn source code...

>>writing to the JVM would be a bigger blessing for all of us, not just a few
>>specific platforms...
>
>Last I knew you could only get JVM for a few specific
>platforms.
>

What platforms don't have a JVM?

>As you can tell I'm not a fan of Java, but lets not turn
>this into a Java Flame War. But I do but I do applaud your
>effort to do it and hope you make it available to all of us.
>

It would be more available than some... :')

>Some thing that concerns me is assuming the source is
>released, I think having thirty different versions of YARN
>floating around might be worse that what we have now.
>
>Can some one set up a CVS version control repository for the
>source code so that there is only one master copy, that is
>hopefully bug free, that changes, fixes, and enhancements can
>be built against?
>

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