[openbeos] Re: Java

Bryan Varner <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It doesn't make much sense to continue working on the old version,  
> > when that one is not open source.
> Unless newer versions of the tree rely on language features / API's  
> from the previous release in order to build. This is highly likely,  
> and I won't be able to tell until I have a chance to look at the 1.6  
> tree.
> 
> The sad fact is, that chances are good we'll need a baseline  
> 'working' 1.5 before we get 1.6 going. Granted, we won't need all the  
> class libraries, just enough to get javac, javah, etc. going.

I still don't really understand; I mean even if this is the case, we 
would need to update our C implementation of javah anyway, won't we? 
It's probably in Sun's own interest to solve this chicken-and-egg 
problem, anyway.

Bye,
   Axel.

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