Am Mo, den 12.07.2004 schrieb Thomas Fitzsimmons um 20:25: > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 13:37, Roman Kennke wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > In one of the last threads on this list there was a discussion about > > which JDK spec GNU Classpath should have as a goal for its 1.0 release. > > I will not answer it here (altough it seemed that most people see 1.4 as > > a reasonable goal). > > > > To concentrate efforts and to provide a basis for future development I > > think it is reasonable to start with spec JDK1.0, complete this and then > > concentrate on 1.1 and so on. Sure, there are some incompatibilities and > > inconsistencies when going this way, in these cases I propose to make a > > compromise in favour of the newer spec. > > > > I have put together a checklist against JDK 1.0: > > > > http://ontographics.com/classpath/status-1.0.html > > > > I am starting now to manually audit all classes listed there with the > > criteria listed on this page in mind. I'll start with documentation, > > then check for implementations of the specified classes and public > > methods and then write missing tests and/or fix failing tests. Of course > > everybody is invited to join these efforts. :) > > > > This is hugely useful. Once you're done the AWT audit, I will write > documentation and tests to fill in the missing bits.
Ok. I'll notify you. > While the Acunia Visual Test Suite is excellent for testing general > functionality, it doesn't really test API conformance. For API-level > testing, we need a new AWT test suite that contains minimal test cases > and detailed instructions for how to run each one. I think we should > write a test suite like this as part of the JDK 1.0 effort. This will be the difficult part. I hope we can test lots of functionality without having something displayed. Hmm. BTW: I think I have completed the check list and have started to audit java.lang: http://ontographics.com/classpath/status-1.0.html looks very good so far :) Cheers, /Roman
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