Hi Mark, --- Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 22:46, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > I'd expect RMS to call for a gcj compatible > release ;) > > I do see the smiley, but I reply anyway to make sure > that there is no > miscommunication here. Richard has always asked
No miscommunication, I am very impressed by the work performed by Tom Tromey, Eric Blake, the ORP hackers, yourself, and all the other nice people working on free software java implementations. I just tried to be funny, thus the smiley. > people that write free > software programs in java to make sure that it works > with one of the > free implementations. Since Kaffe is a free > implementation that works > for most applications it is only natural to point > people to it. > In the past he had also expected that Kaffe would be > the free VM that > would be used by the GNU project. And when other > projects were launched > like GNU Classpath and gcj he has always asked the > developers to work > together with the Kaffe developers. This has sadly > not happened very > much in the past. But mostly because it is a lot of > work and there is > just so little time. > > I still hope to get some work done to make at least > Kaffe and GNU > Classpath work together (which should make it easier > to get kaffe > working better with gcj compiled native code) but > this is a lot of work > and there is much other work to do and so little > time... This sums up the problem from my point of view as well: so much to do, so little time. It has been repreatedly stated by developers on both projects that having kaffe work with gcj and/or classpath would be a good thing, but so far noone has steped up the plate, as far as I know. I see two ways to get kaffe to work with classpath: a) small integration: where we would pick the classes missing in kaffe from classpath, and would "outsource" a part of class library development. b) big integration: getting kaffe to run with the full implementation from classpath. I guess we should start with a) and do b) as we find time. Getting a) done would extend the range of software that runs on kaffe quite a bit. I believe that we can keep the GPL+linking exception from classpath for files that we import completely into kaffe, though I am not a lawyer. I guess we'd have to drop the exception on partially imported files. Could you come up with a list of java class files/packages available in classpath but missing in kaffe? I'd do my best to get them merged into kaffe's tree if both parties agree. best regards, dalibor topic __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
