2009/7/17, Nathan Beyer <nbe...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Alexey > Varlamov<alexey.v.varla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The main point of the HARMONY-3736 was: why any VM should care about > > classlib-specific properties? Let classlib do it, not DRLVM. > > Can you point to some conversation that backs this up? I looked at > that issue and I don't interpret it like you do. Well, probably it was not put prominent enough in that issue. But the idea is simple - we should minimize VM porting interface. Things like detection of system timezone/locale/encoding are VM-agnostic and even never usable in VM. Call it modularity improvement ;)
> > In any case, it looks like this work should be done on this issue, > since it's what we're talking about - > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-3829. Ah - yes, thanks for pointing this out. -- Alexey > > -Nathan >