Very well stated and agreed with you fully. I was just on about it so i could find out from someone who had tested it with the TCK.
Also if the TCK is a read only license how / who / when will Harmony be tested with it ? Will we have to pull strings in Sun and be at their calling to undergo that test. Or as a worst case scenario verify compatiblity by examining TCK source :/ On 5/11/05, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:47:35PM +0100, FaeLLe wrote: > > But im still curious do you think TCK checks if Harmony would have > > implementations of the deprecated methods or can we just spraingly and > > judging the needs implement a selected few of those. > > The TCP probably checks for these deprecated methods, but that isn't the > point. > > Look, if you're going to all the trouble of reimplementing all of Java you > might > as well get used to the idea of doing various things that are boring or > tedious just because you have to. If you don't like that, go play > somewhere > else. Period. > > Not to mention that it really doesn't save you all that much. The %-age > that is > deprecated out of the entire J2SE API is fairly small. > > Think about System.getEnv(). OK, then deprecated but worked, then > deprecated > but threw an exception, and now not deprecated and works again. > > You do not leave something out just because it's deprecated. Please do not > keep harping on this issue, so people can focus on the (daunting) task at > hand. > -- www.FaeLLe.com <http://www.FaeLLe.com>
