Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > > Archie Cobbs wrote: >> Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >>> So to that end, I'd like to set things up so that by default, we use >>> the eclipse compiler, but that means that people have to go through a >>> [painful] process to get the jars (2 of them) - namely if you don't >>> have Eclipse installed, you have to go get it and dig two jars out. >>> >>> I'd like to set things up so we don't have to put in ant/lib to make >>> it less intrusive to people - we could have a local lib dir and do >>> that maybe. >>> >>> Anyway, anyone have strong feelings or suggestions? >> >> I haven't been paying close attention so this may be a dumb question... >> what about using jikes? Jikes is nice for Java VM projects where you >> have a bootstrap problem associated with Java compilers themselves >> written in Java. > > Well, we have* our own VM, right? > > > * have => ok, in the future... >
I assume that Archie meant the Jikes compiler, right? Not sure whether that is under active development. The last release I can see in their archive is 2004-10-03. Regards, Tim -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
