Anthony Green writes: > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:01 +0100, Rupert K. wrote: > > Hi there > > My name is rupert. I am the one who will implement > > this j2me stuff as my > > master thesis. > > The goal of the project will be to implement the cldc > > 1.1/midp 2.0 > > specification and make it runnable under the CacaoVM. > > In the first step it will run under an pc-environment. > > Later on we will > > port it to an mobile device > > The new API should be similar to the existing > > classpath and/or using > > parts of it. > > My favorite idea for turning GNU Classpath into a J2ME-like library > would be to maintain a set of patches for converting the existing > sources into the J2ME-like variant. > > I think the core classes aren't changing much anymore, so this isn't > likely to be a huge maintenance job. Maintaining the work as patches > means it's also easy to see when something in the core classes has > changed, forcing us to modify the patches. > > Ideally these patches would be checked into the GNU Classpath tree and a > simple configure option would allow us to generate and build these > alternative classes. > > A long time ago I used to think that preprocessing would be the best way > to do all this, but the difference between J2SE- and J2ME-like classes > are too large.
I wonder if we can use svn to help us with this. A bunch of svn changesets might be more useful and less messy than patches. And you can easily make a patch from a bunch of svn changesets. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
