> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Fisher
>
> "John Keiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > un-splintering the community's resources.
>
> I really don't see the community's resources as being splintered.
> Transvirtual is working on their libs, and free software hackers are
> working on the GNU Classpath libs. :) Transvirtual is motivated by the
> fact that they can relicense their code base for proprietary use and
> modification -- they of course can't do that if they start accepting
> outside code.
>
Oh wait, really? I just read that a second time and understood it for the
first time ... so the free software community is *not* working on Kaffe's
libs? I was under the impression that free software hackers *were* working
on it. I haven't been lurking on their list for a while, though, so perhaps
things have changed.
I'm not too worried ... I think that once Classpath is integrated with
Kaffe, Kaffe and Classpath developers alike will be clamoring for a single
set of class libraries. We're developers, motivated by what makes sense,
not politics.
I am willing to undertake the Kaffe integration project once I am done with
Japhar integration and I am in better contact with the Kaffe development
team (I want to make sure I include any bugfixes they make into my modified
version so that when Classpath goes in, it is perfectly in synch with the
current version of Kaffe). If someone else here knows more about it, it'd
be good for someone *besides* me to do it, so that our knowledge base for VM
integration expands. Two cooks in this case are better than one, as long as
we work together.
I hope we work with Kaffe rather than shun them. It would be *perfect* if
they decided, once we were stable, to use Classpath as their primary class
libraries. Then they and we would both benefit immensely.
--John Keiser
