Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
Cool - I assume you can make the new version available before we make
changes to the classlib? IOW, make both available and known to the
project (so developers on the project can work on the changes) and
then when we get our stuff done, we'll point users to the new version?
Yup - no change will be made to the Subversion repository before the new
VME is made available. Once its up there on the download site, Tim is
going to complete the necessary package renames etc. The previous VME
will still be available from the download site, alongside the new one.
geir
Oliver Deakin wrote:
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that a new IBM VME will be made available
soon at:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/harmony/index.html
The new VME downloads are named Harmony-vme-win.IA32-v2.zip and
Harmony-vme-linux.IA32-v2.tar.gz. I would like to stress that if you
download these packages now, they will *not* work with the class
library code currently in Harmony Subversion. This VME has been
created looking forward to changes that have been discussed on the
list, but have not yet been carried out. They are:
- completion of renaming of com.ibm packages, especially in LUNI
module. The new VME expects only org.apache.harmony package names.
- removal of String from the kernel, and addition of an
intern(String) method to the org.apache.harmony.kernel.vm.VM class.
The new VME does *not* contain String in its kernel jars. It does,
however, provide an intern(String) method in the VM class, as was
suggested in [1]. The String.intern() method in Harmony will just
redirect the call to VM.intern(String).
Once these changes are made in the Harmony repository, the new
version of the VME will be required to run with Harmony classlib. I
will send out a further mail when this is done confirming that the
new VME is available and ready to use.
A link to the VME v1 will still be available in the same place, and
this should still be used until the above changes are made.
Regards,
Oliver
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