Yeah, when I looked at the code, I wasn't to impressed with the handling of error conditions. And basic CLASSPATH handling isn't very good either. This is definitely near the top of my list of things to get fixed.
Cheers, - Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jukka Santala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 6:19 AM Subject: [kaffe] Poor CLASSPATH handling... > [jsantala@yavin bin]$ export CLASSPATH=foobar.jar > [jsantala@yavin bin]$ jar > > In other words, Kaffe appears to fail/crash silently if it can't find any > component in the CLASSPATH (And this appears to include classpaths > specified in jar files, making most pre-bundled jar-files unusable). It > appears this is the net problem that was keeping XSmiles/Xalan from > running with the latest Kaffe desktop-edition builds. As luck would have > it, I have important business elsewhere, so I'll have to leave fixing it > to somebody else ;) (Unless it isn't fixed by the time I come back... > altough I'm not too familiar with this part of the code, and there's no > exceptions etc. available that early to track execution...) > > -Jukka Santala > > > _______________________________________________ > kaffe mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe > _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
