Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?

The project isn't dead, it's just, um, mature. There hasn't been a lot of feature requests and outside of a burst of activity a few months ago, it tends to be fairly quiet. But again, that isn't for lack of interest. I think the project is fairly full featured. I should probably get in touch with Kenneth and see if we can get a final out sometime soon. The "beta" status of the latest release is 4 years old so I think a final is due (maybe an RC at least).

If there *are* feature requests, I'd love to see a list created so we could chip away at them. Biggest missing feature, or sub project, would be a tn3812 project so you could configure a local printer. I don't know much about the data stream in that case but there are probably enough i folks who might provide technical direction even if the coding was in Java.

If tn5250j was stable and complete, I want to pursue the web5250 project and has been "sleeping". The ideas about using something like JSON or XML and rendering at the browser end was intriguing.
Pete


Aaron Bartell wrote:

>If you are tweaking tn5250j, I hope you are contributing the changes back (I haven't seen you on the mailing list...)
The change I described is a personal preference "feature" and would require much more programming to make it a configurable feature from the settings area. Though I suppose it would be good for me to get on that mailing list. I haven't really pursued getting involved with that sourceforge.net <http://sourceforge.net> project because it appeared it was dead based on when the last release was, but it sounds like it might still be alive?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Aaron,

If you are tweaking tn5250j, I hope you are contributing the
changes back (I haven't seen you on the mailing list...)

I just spent the day with IzPack, building a new installer jar for
the latest tn5250j. I think I'll play with IzPack a little more
and see if I can use it to install programs to the i. Something I
have needed is a desktop installer for i programs....

Pete