On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Bruno F. Souza wrote:
Sven de Marothy wrote:
I really don't view it that way. I view it as 'Is it worth spending
effort on this?'.
I understand where Geir is coming from here: even more important
then the implementation, one of Harmony objectives is to involve
different groups as well as commercial companies, to define a
modular architecture for a J2SE implementation. It could even be
that a Harmony VM would be incorporated with Sun's classlibraries
to create a product by some comercial vendor that could lawfully do
that. In this view, it would be important to have a VM-library
interface that could accomplish that.
But I mostly agree with Sven: if we're going to support plugging
different libraries, we must start from somewere that is available
and documented (Classpath has such a beast) and then work with the
interested parties to expand that. For us to include the existing
(non documented/proprietary) Sun interface it would have to be
contributed by Sun into the discussion.
Yes - starting from GNU Classpath is what I suggested in the
beginning and kept saying all the way through. I also suggested that
there were things to discuss about it (java.lang.VM*) and we wound up
down this rathole.
geir
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