Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > > Tim Ellison wrote: >> Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >>> Chris Gray wrote: >>>> On Monday 24 April 2006 23:34, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >>>> >>>>> 1) Could we simply have a classloader that can be put in a special >>>>> mode >>>>> so it doesn't that unit tests for bootclasspath-resident packages are >>>>> not on the boot classpath? >>>> If you mean that the custom classloader would try to load classes >>>> named (say) java.*.Test* itself instead of delegating to its parent, >>>> then you should find that the VM won't let you - I'm pretty sure >>>> that's in the spec somewhere. >>> We are writing the VM - what I meant was have that mode for the Vm... >> >> The point of the VMI is to support multiple VM implementations, so >> unless you require this mode from every Harmony-compatible VM ... > > No, just the one we're going to use to test the classlibrary.
I would vote -1 to purposely designing the classlib tests to only run on a particular VM implementation. ( I suspect, though, that I'm missing something in your argument, because I'm surprised you would be suggesting that -- please correct me if I misunderstood. ) Regards, Tim -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
