Jim Pick wrote:
Hi everybody,
It's been a quiet month on the mailing list so far. That's partly my
fault, I think, since the mailing list was broken for some time.
It looks like the last CVS commit was 5 weeks ago.
I see Dalibor went to FOSDEM, and did some talking about Kaffe there.
So I'm assuming that the project isn't dead, it's just somewhat dormant.
It's been somewhat dead/dormant throughout much of it's history, but
it's still here, isn't it? :-)
And clearly, all the free Java runtimes and Classpath are in a state of
transition, as we wait for Sun to release the rest of OpenJDK.
I'd like to liven up the list a bit, and maybe start a bit of discussion
on where Kaffe should go next.
Here are some things I'd like to talk about:
* Technically speaking, I'm still the project leader, by virtue of
rescuing it from the ashes of Transvirtual. But Dalibor is really the
guy who has been doing most of the work. I'm not really doing much with
Kaffe personally, so if anybody else wants to step up and be a real
project leader, feel free to volunteer. I'm still happy to keep hosting
the project and helping out with the releases.
Dalibor has been doing a great job.
* Speaking of releases, we really should do another release sometime.
Yes please. I would like a stable version containing the fixes I needed.
* I also haven't been responding to emails asking me for help getting
Kaffe to run. I'd like to, but since I don't even have it working for
myself, I'm not really in a position to help out. I get so much spam
nowadays that I hardly even use email anymore. I notice that most
requests for help to the mailing list are going unanswered as well.
Fraid I get the IT department to compile and install for me, so I know
relatively little about these problems.
* If anybody is currently doing something interesting with Kaffe, or has
any aspirations for it, please send some email to the list! We need the
ideas and the traffic!
Nothing interesting here. I've used Kaffe running under valgrind to
detect bugs in our C code accessed via JNI. We were unable to detect
these problems any other way because the Sun JVM defeated most of our
usual tools.
At present I dont really have an alternative to this (Windows purify
started spotting additional problems once valgrind had detected the
first one - they do detect different problems), but I would love to know
of one. Thankfully such problems are rare, but typically are discovered
at critical times - they are not keen to do a port to Linux just to find
the bugs...
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