Re: Java tools

2001-07-09 Thread Stuart Ballard
Nic Ferrier wrote: I have proposed to Julian that a new GNU project be setup called: java-tools. We can put things like javadoc and jar-tool implementations under that project. Does anyone have any objections to that? Sun might - they don't like people using the name Java for things.

Re: Java tools

2001-07-09 Thread Nic Ferrier
Stuart Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09-Jul-01 4:00:18 PM Sun might - they don't like people using the name Java for things. The FSF doesn't use the word either. It was a mistake for me to call the project that. The project wouyld actually be called something like class-tools but we can

File compile fix

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, I comitted the following to get java/io/File.java to compile again. The single String constructor will throw the NullPointerException when needed. 2001-07-10 Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] * java/io/File.java (String,String constructor): compile fix Cheers, Mark -- Stuff to

Re: Java tools

2001-07-09 Thread Brian Jones
Nic Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stuart Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09-Jul-01 4:00:18 PM Sun might - they don't like people using the name Java for things. The FSF doesn't use the word either. It was a mistake for me to call the project that. The project wouyld actually

Primitive types 1.4 updates

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, The following patch adds new 1.4 functionality to the Boolean, Double and Float classes. It also makes Boolean a little bit more efficient by always returning the predefined TRUE or FALSE instances when possible. 2001-07-10 Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] * java/lang/Boolean.java

Re: Primitive types 1.4 updates

2001-07-09 Thread Brian Jones
Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, The following patch adds new 1.4 functionality to the Boolean, Double and Float classes. It also makes Boolean a little bit more efficient by always returning the predefined TRUE or FALSE instances when possible. 2001-07-10 Mark Wielaard

Re: CharSequence support

2001-07-09 Thread Nic Ferrier
Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10-Jul-01 1:00:59 AM I did not add the new 1.4 split() methods to String. They need java/util/regexp support. Maybe we can ask Wes Biggs if we may import part of gnu.regexp to implement it. It is licensed under the LGPL, but since it seems to

Chained Exceptions and StackTraceElement support

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, The 1.4 spec finally defines a generic Exception chaining mechanism so you don't have to implement this in an ad hoc way for every project. It also defines a general StackTraceElement that can be used to inspect the call stack of an exception. I have seen people do this by parsing the output