> John Keiser wrote:
>
> Sun currently distributes Java in JDK versions and JRE versions. Not
> including the tools is fine if you plan on making Classpath part of a JRE
> implementation. The problem is a JDK distribution contains the
> tools and these
> tools depend on the class libraries. Most of sun's tools are in
> sun.tools.* or
> sun.security.* and the wrapper programs depend on finding them
> there. So if you
> try to drop in Classpath in a Sun JDK distribution, all of the
> tools will stop
> working because they depend on sun.* classes that do not exist.
> That is why
> Classpath needs its own set of tools unless it starts providing
> sun.* classes.
>
> Mark Benvenuto
>
I don't think Sun JDK is a target platform anyway, at least not for any core
classes. We can never be a complete drop-in replacement, so why bother
trying? We would be just fine distributing gnu.tools instead of sun.tools
if we wanted to.
--John
