-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sonja Krause-Harder wrote:
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 12:22:23AM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Yeah, well, there's no substantial point in building 1.5 bytecode if the source code doesn't use features from JSE 5 (generics, annotations, autoboxing).
Agreed.
"Fixing gcj/classpath so that they can deal with 1.5-compiled jars" would mean at the very least adding generics, annotations and autoboxing bytecode support into gcj (the compiler), as well as kaffe, sablevm or cocoavm (the runtime(s)).
I was under the impression that at least the gcc community is already working on that. "Fixing" gcj thus need not mean implementing the stuff myself, but also providing bugreports and testcases etc., which we wouldn't come up with if we just stay with the status quo. With free projects there's at least a possibility for us to help.
Yes, totally, testing and providing bugs/reports is great help.
IMO the Build Service is a good platform for that, in order to provide
the latest builds of GCJ, GNU Classpath, ... for SUSE Linux, and
possibly for other distributions as well (maybe the current Fedora
maintainers would be interested in sharing the efforts).
As those projects are still evolving a lot, and make significant leaps
with each release, the distribution is not well suited as it is almost
immune to feature upgrades (of packages).
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