Re: Introduction, new maintainer for kaffe

2002-03-13 Thread Jean-Eric Cuendet
Hello Jim, Good news! Welcome to Kaffee. Happy to know that someone has time to maintain Kaffe. I think Kaffe is important for the open-source community. Have a nice day. -jec Jim Pick wrote: Hi, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Jim Pick. I have volunteered to take over the reigns

Re: Introduction, new maintainer for kaffe

2002-03-13 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:02:23PM -0800, Jim Pick wrote: I'm hoping I can get the CVS archive from Ean Schuessler at Brainfood so I can set it up on the new machine. Also, down the road, it would be nice to migrate the mailing list to the new machine so Daniel Veillard doesn't

Re: Introduction, new maintainer for kaffe

2002-03-13 Thread Jukka Santala
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Jim Pick wrote: 2) Make a new release as soon as possible. Version 1.0.6 came out in July, 2000, and there hasn't been a release since (although there has been CVS activity). I'd like to do a minimal amount of testing, and see if we can get it out, perhaps

[PATCH] java.awt.EventQueue : getNextEvent

2002-03-13 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi, this small patch changes the behavior of getNextEvent in java.awt.EventQueue. Instead of silently swallowing all InterruptedExceptions, it now lets them propagate up. Reasoning: The API specification says that getNextEvent throws an InterruptedException. Dalibor Topic *

[PATCH] java.awt.AWTEvent: toString

2002-03-13 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi, this patch makes AWTEvent's toString method follow the description from Java Class Libraries, 2nd Edition. It improves its comparability with JDK's output. It also removes some unnecessary static methods from AWTEvent, and adapts EventQueue accordingly. Dalibor Topic *

[PATCH] misc. toString fixes

2002-03-13 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi, here's yet another small fix for toString, in order to improve comparability of output with JDK. This one adds a toString method in java.awt.image.DirectColorModel, and adapts the existing ones in java.awt.BorderLayout, java.awt.Event and java.util.EventObject. Dalibor Topic *

Re: Moving CVS archive

2002-03-13 Thread Jim Pick
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:10:37AM -0800, Jim Pick wrote: Hi, I'm going to move the CVS archive to the new machine today. I'll tell everybody when it's ready. I'd like to know if people can still check stuff in. It's all moved, theoretically. It's in the same location,

RE: Moving CVS archive

2002-03-13 Thread Duncan McQueen
This may be already done, but a few years ago I helped out with the BeKaffe effort. The goal of that project was to fully port Kaffe to the BeOS platform. There were some CVS changes to Kaffe's sources as well as some external sources that were stored on our own CVS system (for AWT). Is

RE: Introduction, new maintainer for kaffe

2002-03-13 Thread Krishna Prasad T
Hi, Very happy to know that kaffe is up again. I think it is the best available JVMs(abundance in no. of platforms it supports for a minimal size) if it is maintained well and updated to latest standards. (E.g. unix-pthread, multiple instances, Java 2 compliancy etc.) Reards Prasad Hi,