Re: RDp v8 announced -- available Oct 26th. -- Runs on Linux! -- WDSCI-L

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You make it sound like a new feature to have a linux client when they really have screwed it up years ago because the base platform, Eclipse, is multi-platform capable.

The usage of not portable C libs was definitly wrong in the first place.

Hope the did some bugfixes on the outline. It still is a mess.

... enough ranting from me ... long live RDP (till the next name change) =)

Mihael

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 8:07 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDp v8 announced -- available Oct 26th. -- Runs on Linux!

Den 13/10/10 06.45, Scott Klement skrev:

We want freedom, not shackles. Quit trying to tie us up to particular
client OSes! Your tool is written in Java for cryin' out loud!

I believe the problem is that much functionality is leveraged from
existing libraries written in C, and getting those libraries to run well
on multiple platforms is quite a different story.

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