Much of this weeks discussion was a controversy about a keyword scanning tool and some legal issues. There where two code contributions this week: Mikhail Loenko contributed "security, crypto, and x-net libraries" on behalf of Intel and Zoë Slattery contributed a "perl keyword scanner and sample files". The second contribution resulted from the discussion about keyword scanning wich I'll cover in more detail later. [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200511.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200511.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Last Sunday, Archie Cobbs announced "JCHEVM builds and runs" which meant it "builds and runs on Linux, FreeBSD, etc.". He then discussed with Enrico Migliore, Jean-frederic Clere and Tom Tromey about how to build it and how the build process could be optimized. [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200511.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] There was quite a lot discussion about how Harmony could better interact with other projects under different licenses (especially GNU Classpath, which is licensed under GPL+exception, but also projects licensed under LGPL). The email threads where this was discussed are "Waiting for license resolutions" and "The Unofficial 'Harmony, Licensing, the Universe and everything' FAQ". There was lots of disussion, but I think in short we could say: There is no solution yet nor will there be one soon, but many people are interested and there are several people (both at the ASF and FSF) who are working hard to find one (for example Leo Simons, Stefano Mazzocchi and others here at harmony-dev). Stefano Mazzocchi made an interesting suggestion here: To develop a VM interface which is neither hosted by the ASF nor by the FSF and which is licensed licensed under a neutral MIT license. Both projects could then implement this interface and interact in this way. [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200511.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200511.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] The email "[legal] Proposed changes for the Bulk Contributor Questionnaire" by Geir Magnusson Jr. caused a long discussion about keyword scanning tools. This was because Geir mentioned such a tool by BlackDuck Software in the questionnaire where he suggested that every contribution should be scanned: "(a scan for keywords that will help identify code pedigree)". The two major problems people had with that was the explicit mentioning of BlackDuck Software in the questionnaire and the concern that the process might rely on the keyword scanner too much. Later in this discussion most people agreed that using a keyword scanner can support the process, but that it might be good to have an open source tool for that. Because of that, Zoë Slattery contributed her pearl keyword scanner. [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200511.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Wielaard announced the "GNU Classpath hacker room at FOSDEM 2006" where he invited us from Harmony to come too. Geir Magnusson Jr. and I will be there, Leo Simons tries to come too. Kazuyuki Shudo asked Steve Liao to clarify some points about a Re-entrant JIT in "[arch] Interpreter vs. JIT for Harmony VM", but he got no answer yet. Geir Magnusson Jr. has started "[vote] Accept keyword scan contribution", there will be a result next week. Enrico Migliore discussed with Jean-frederic Clere and Archie Cobbs about "compiling JCHEVM with MSVC". Archie mentioned: "Unfortunately JCHEVM requires the GCC compiler right now. It would take some nontrivial work to port it to MSVC". [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200511.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200511.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200511.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200511.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, David. -- Read the archive of this series at http://deltalabs.at/ -- RSS feed: http://deltalabs.at/?q=taxonomy/term/8/0/feed -- Also aggregated at: http://planet.classpath.org/ -- David Tanzer, Haghofstr. 29, A-3352 St. Peter/Au, Austria/Europe http://deltalabs.at -- http://dev.guglhupf.net -- http://guglhupf.net My PGP Public Key: http://guglhupf.net/david/david.asc -- From "Pavlov's Mice," after Pinky has kicked him into the cage bars while doing his Russian dance Pinky: Gee, Brain, what are you doing over there? Brain: Pondering your afterlife, Pinky.
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