[openbeos] Re: Java

In the interest of staying on topic we should really take this off this list, or just let it all simmer until complete JDK is opened.
I expect that'll be around march, but who knows... until then, the only thing we can do is talk ourselves in circles and distract each other from the rest of the things we'd like to do. 

Regards,
-Bryan

On Nov 15, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Axel Dörfler wrote:


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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