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Re: [cdt-dev] is Win98 a supported platform ?
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At 11:52 AM 4/21/2003 -0400, Alain Magloire wrote:
Our Spawner JNI code does not work on Win98 ?
I don't see 98 as an important platform. You can't get anything Windows
except XP from Dell and we work on XP just fine. This is a problem that
time will solve because the number of active use Win 98 boxes is going to
go down at a nice clip now.
This make the CDT non-functionnal on Win98 using the Spawner class.
A few solutions:
(1) Fall back to java.lang.Process
My personal opinion is that this is unworkable with the current version of
java.lang.Process. Process is just missing too many important features that
Spawner provides.
I still have not packaged them up and submitted the patch, but we have a
version of the spawner that allows you to set the priority on process
invocation. Given Win32's bad time slicing for greedy PRI_NORMAL tasks,
we've found it's absolutely essential to getting reasonable UI
responsiveness whenever you are spawning anything of consequence in the
background.
Thanks!
-Chris
