>>> Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16-Apr-00 4:08:49 AM >>>
Emil> Hmm. I seem to recall that when RMS spoke in Lund, Sweden, a
Emil> couple of weeks back he endorsed Japhar. But as I think back
on
Emil> it, maybe he was just encouraging people to help out with
Emil> Japhar, stressing the point that Japhar needs help.
>I'm curious why he would support Japhar and not libgcj. I think
the
>only thing Japhar does that libgcj doesn't do is support JVMDI.
Well,
>plus the libgcj interpreter has only been ported to two targets
(doing
>one of these ports is relatively easy). Perhaps there is more that
>makes Japhar more interesting; I'd like to hear about it.
And then there's Kaffe which rms continues to support as well.
I'm curious because Kaffe is stated as the prime GNU-project VM and
has a free library implementation but GNU are also doing the Classpath
project, which is a different set of libraries for a VM which
transvirtual have said they're not really interested in.
It seems there's more than a small duplication of effort (which is
not really a problem in itself) and I just wondered what the thinking
was.
Nic
