I agree 100%. That'll be one of the first things that I fix after I get 1.0.7-rc1 branched and released (I failed to finish everything yesteday, I'll definitely have it done today).
Cheers, - Jim On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 00:41, Dalibor Topic wrote: > A regular source of bug reports seems to be the state > of Klasses.jar: it is usually a few patches behind the > source code. You are probably wondering why > Klasses.jar is not updated more regularly. > > a) it is a generated file. You can "make Klasses" it > yourself. > b) it is large. Every update of Klasses.jar eats away > ~1 MB on the CVS server. > c) it is large. Every update of Klasses.jar makes > people cvs updating transfer 1 MB of stuff that will > be out of sync with the source soon anyway. > d) it does not stay current for long. Currently there > is at least one patch for java libraries every week. > > Unless there are platforms where making the > Klasses.jar file is impossible for some reason, I'd > like to propose the following scheme of things: > > a) "make Klasses" should become a mandatory part of > the make process. Preferably using the supplied kjc > compiler, since surving the Klasses.jar compilation > using kjc means that your kaffe installation actually > works for something non-trivial. Since kjc can take a > while on older systems, kjc should be run in verbose > mode when compiling Klasses.jar ;) Automatically using > kjc also takes care of people using a broken version > of jikes to compile kaffe. > b) Reduce Klasses.jar in the CVS to a subset required > to run kjc. > c) Offer up-to-date Klasses.jar as separate download > on kaffe.org, in different versions: "standard, > optimized for speed, optimized for size" > > what do you think? > > best regards, > > dalibor topic > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
