I'll need to consult within the MMTk world, but my preference would be to distribute jar files for the vmmagic and mmtk interfaces, separate to the implementation.
Leave it with me. cheers Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > works for me > > Weldon Washburn wrote: >> >> >> On 10/26/06, *Geir Magnusson Jr.* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> >> >> Mikhail Fursov wrote: >> > Folks, >> > I'm preparing the first patch with VM helpers inlining framework >> > implementation. >> > The Java fast-path helpers use org.vmmagic.unboxed classes (or >> "magic" >> > classes ) to use address arithmetic in helpers. That is the >> mmtk.jar is >> > required to build these classes. >> > The problem is that I do not know what is the best place to put >> mmtk.jar. >> > Should we make it downloadable from some 3rd party page? My vote >> is -1 >> > here. >> >> Why not? We do that for everything else, where we can. >> >> I agree with Geir. Its best to try to stay out of the business of warehousing 3rd party stuff. Let's download MMTk.jar from a web page during "build fetch-depends". We can change this if it causes problems. Robin Garner, can you help us with this? What is the best URL for this? >> >> > Let's be careful about what is in the JAR. >> > Could we put it directly into SVN? I'm +1 here. We have to decide >> only >> > about >> > a folder name. >> > >> > Any thoughts? >> > >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Weldon Washburn >> Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division
