Re: RPM spec file?

2005-03-31 Thread Andy Walter
Hi, On Saturday 19 March 2005 00:32, Archie Cobbs wrote: Who do I ask about building a Debian package for JC? Are you sure you want to manually create rpm and deb packages? There is some free software called epm that uses just 1 package description to generate archives for many Unix systems.

Re: Removing the TARGET_* layer or not ?

2004-08-06 Thread Andy Walter
Hi, I'm sorry for the trouble which was caused by the target layer. Actually, I'm quite surprised about the massive critique now. When we asked to check it in more than one year ago, there was very little feedback and the feedback we got was mainly quite positive. We are currently preparing

NYIException

2003-09-29 Thread Andy Walter
Hi all, a surprising lot of emails have been sent about that matter. It seems that we all agree on that throwing *something* would be better than what we have currently. The attached class is a summary of what as far I understood from the emails most people here wanted. Personally, I had

Re: NYIException

2003-09-29 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Andrew, On Monday 29 September 2003 19:40, Andrew Haley wrote: Throwing an appropriate message will help, of course, but one of the advantages of gcj is that you can pre-link and you know you won't get runtime linkage errors -- the linker has resolved everything. Having dummy

Re: NYIException

2003-09-26 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Brian, On Friday 26 September 2003 00:43, Brian Jones wrote: [NotYetImplementedException] Not sure we even need the extra exception type, just finding all the spots to throw the UnsupportedOperationException and doing that would probably be more than enough. The motivation is that,

Re: NYIException

2003-09-26 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Sascha, On Friday 26 September 2003 14:38, Sascha Brawer wrote: [NotYetImplementedException] What would you say about defining a special Javadoc tag, such as the following? /** * @unimplemented 1.4 Here comes some explanation. */ [class|method|field] Do you mean additionally to

Re: NYIException

2003-09-26 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Michael, On Friday 26 September 2003 17:56, Michael Koch wrote: I'm for UnsupportedOperationException too because it exists already and dont have to invent something new. A reason against using it is that some methods return UOE by design in some situations. That means that i may not be

Re: Dependencies files

2003-07-17 Thread Andy Walter
On Thursday 17 July 2003 01:52, Brian Jones wrote: Dr. Torsten Rupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: class-dependencies.conf Hmm, got any program to contribute that generates these .conf files? Not yet, sorry. The files read a bit strange in the beginning, but we wanted to use standard Java

Re: JNI header files

2003-07-16 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Mark, On Wednesday 16 July 2003 12:44, Mark Wielaard wrote: We don't seem to have real build support for creating JNI header files but instead have pre-generated .h files in our include file. Why is that? We do seem to detect which javah like program the user has installed. On my system it

Re: GNU Classpath Linuxtag meeting minutes

2003-07-15 Thread Andy Walter
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 15:36, Dalibor Topic wrote: - [NotYetImplementedException] static String nyi = This method has not yet been implemented in GNU Classpath.\n\n + The GNU Classpath project would appreciate receiving + an implementation for it.\n + If you

Re: GNU Classpath Linuxtag meeting minutes

2003-07-15 Thread Andy Walter
On Monday 14 July 2003 14:39, Sascha Brawer wrote: Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:46:08 +0200: - Aicas is working on some RMI fixups. In the context of RMI, maybe not everyone knows that there also exists a variant which does RMI over IIOP. It uses the CORBA

Re: Meeting at LinuxTag?

2003-07-08 Thread Andy Walter
Hi, On Sunday 29 June 2003 19:38, Mark Wielaard wrote: I will be going to The Libre Software Meeting (http://www.libresoftwaremeeting.org/) on Friday July 11th and be on LinuxTag on Saterday and Sunday. I am meeting Dalibor Topic (of kaffe fame) who will also be on both events. I can be on

Re: Wonka Classpath

2002-11-11 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Chris, On Sunday 10 November 2002 15:57, Chris Gray wrote: However it still seems to me that GPL+exception excludes the possibility of binary-only distributions, something which we do not wish to exclude. Admittedly there seems to be little reason why a systems integrator would need to

Re: Method of executing Mauve

2002-11-06 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Brian, On Wednesday 06 November 2002 04:48, Brian Jones wrote: Someone mentioned they had a method of executing Mauve that would appropriately time out and kill the bad VM. I'm guessing some use of expect/tcl here. If there is an example I could look at that would be great. We use a

Re: I wish to help

2002-11-05 Thread Andy Walter
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 00:56, Brian Jones wrote: Andy, it does not seem like it will be possible to do a complete merge as originally hoped. Even so, it should be possible to work with you to include your necessary pieces that provide greater embedded functionality. Yes, of course.

Re: I wish to help

2002-11-05 Thread Andy Walter
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 00:01, Mark Wielaard wrote: [Rudolph + GNU Classpath] I meant did you try any of the awt sub-packages not found in Rudolph? e.g. java.awt.color, java.awt.datatransfer, java.awt.dnd, java.awt.font, java.awt.geom, java.awt.im, java.awt.im.spi,

Re: I wish to help

2002-11-04 Thread Andy Walter
Hi, On Thursday 31 October 2002 22:45, Mark Wielaard wrote: [Rudolph + GNU Classpath] Nice. Do you use any of the non-rudolph java.awt.* packages/classes? No. Sorry if I got that wrong. We use Classpath, except from AWT and java.lang, and the modified AWT classes from Rudolph. So far, we

Re: I wish to help

2002-10-31 Thread Andy Walter
Hi, On Thursday 31 October 2002 12:15, Mark Wielaard wrote: Has someone actually tried Rudolph with GNU Classpath? Yes, it is running quite well here. But we replaced many native methods (all but 5) by Java code. Since Rudolph uses a proprietary interface, this replacement might be

Re: Status update and some questions/suggestions about remaining Intel/Orp patches

2002-10-28 Thread Andy Walter
Hi, On Monday 28 October 2002 08:52, Jeroen Frijters wrote: To me, avoiding native methods as often as possible is preferable as well. I agree. I'm not using any JNI in my VM for the Classpath native methods (although my VM does support it [but it isn't completely done yet]), for one

Re: Status update and some questions/suggestions about remaining Intel/Orp patches

2002-10-27 Thread Andy Walter
Hi, On Sunday 27 October 2002 02:22, Mark Wielaard wrote: - java/io/Object*Stream.java. We had these classes merged with libgcj but they are diverging again. This is code I don't know much about and has some very subtle issues that are easy to get wrong. One thing I like about the libgcj

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-26 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Mark, On Thursday 24 October 2002 18:03, Mark Wielaard wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 18:21, Andy Walter wrote: [...] we are very interested in joining your project. That would be very nice! I'm glad to see that we are welcome here. For license questions you will have to contact [EMAIL

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-26 Thread Andy Walter
On Saturday 26 October 2002 06:22, Brian Jones wrote: Hey, I guess this answers that nagging question I had about how a JVM is supposed to deal with native code memory allocation being somewhat outside of the garbage collector arrangement in use... :-) Of course, the garbage collector can not

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-26 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Mark, On Saturday 26 October 2002 13:26, Mark Wielaard wrote: We also want to set something like that up for Kissme (or sablevm or Orp) and mauve. So that would be a very nice contribution. Then we can more easily compare what are VM issues and what are library issues. I have already

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Walter
On Thursday 24 October 2002 02:53, Brian Jones wrote: Andy Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're rather free with the CVS access. Fine. We haven't spent a great deal of time optimizing the library for speed or memory usage. No problem. It is, of course, important to us, so we will invest

Re: JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Walter
Hi Chris, On Thursday 24 October 2002 09:01, Chris Gray wrote: On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Andy Walter wrote: * One thing that shouldn't be unmentioned: Unlike the rest of our current standard classes, the AWT implementation is not completely written by ourselves, but based on Acunia's Wonka

JamaicaVM and GNU Classpath

2002-10-23 Thread Andy Walter
Hello Classpath-Developers, at aicas GmbH (http://www.aicas.com), we are developing a Java Virtual Machine, JamaicaVM, that comes with its own (clean room) implementation of the standard classes. Since this is redundant work (and, as I understand it, exactely the reason why the GNU Classpath