Herman Knief
Well, there are more issues than just plugins for Mozilla. I have several apps that rely on "Install Anywhere" which is a java based product from Zero G. All of the installers break under 8.1. I am sure it's an environment issue related to loading shared objects, but one that needs to be addressed by someone.
This is the first time I hear of it. I'll try and see what I can come up with. With "Install Anywhere" being a commercial application, I just guess it won't be that easy to track down the failure as I'd first would have to get hold of either the installer or a package/app that uses it. The solution would be a java package that's compiled with gcc 3.2 and that would have to come either from Sun or from IBM. With all major commercial distributions switching to gcc 3.2, these will IMHO come, but not too soon, given that these Java packages would have to undergo the complete certification.
Of course timing might not be the best, if the rest of the world wasn't ready to switch.
Well, Mandrake 9 and RedHat 8 also use gcc 3.2, so SuSE's not alone in switching to gcc 3.2.
unfortunately my own companies product won't even install on my machine now.
Well, let's see if I can come up with something here. BTW, could you please refrain from such full quotes with answer on top? It makes reading mails much harder than necessary. cheers Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: pth@t-link.de