On Thursday 03 August 2006 08:43, Raif S. Naffah wrote: > hello all, > > the attached patch updates the README file to reflect the current state of > the project. > > OK to commit?
in addition to the above, the attached patch: * removes the reference to Kissme, which is no more in active development, and * corrects the reference to the Jikes RVM project's home page. cheers; rsn
Index: README =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/README,v retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -r1.18 README --- README 14 May 2006 22:43:50 -0000 1.18 +++ README 4 Aug 2006 03:24:19 -0000 @@ -4,18 +4,18 @@ free software implementation of the core class libraries for the java programming language. -Additionally GNU Classpath includes a sub-project called GNU Classpath -Tools whose goal is to provide a number of free replacements for -standard Java development tools like javadoc, javap, javah, and -others. And a sub-project called GNU Inetlib, an extension library to -provide extra network protocol support (ftp, finger, gopher) for GNU -Classpath, but it can also standalone to ease adding http, imap, pop3 -and smtp client support to applictions. These subprojects are normally -released independent from the core libraries. +Additionally, GNU Classpath includes a sub-project called GNU Classpath +Tools whose goal is to provide a number of free replacements for standard +Java development tools like javadoc, javap, and others. A sub-project +called GNU Inetlib, can be used as an extension library to provide extra +network protocol support (ftp, finger, gopher) for GNU Classpath. It can +also be used as a standalone to ease adding http, imap, pop3 and smtp +client support to applictions. These subprojects are normally released +independently from the core libraries. This is a development snapshot release only and is not for general -purpose use. GNU Classpath needs to be combine with a proper -development environments to be useable for end users. Eventually, +purpose use. GNU Classpath needs to be combined with a proper +development environment to be useable for end users. Eventually, these essential libraries for java will work with as many free compilers and runtimes as possible. @@ -31,24 +31,22 @@ * CACAO (http://www.cacaojvm.org/) * JamVM (http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/) - * Jikes RVM (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm/) - * Kissme (http://kissme.sourceforge.net/) + * Jikes RVM (http://jikesrvm.sourceforge.net/) In general the latest releases of the above VMs will work out of the box with the latest GNU Classpath release (and in most cases directly with the development sources from CVS). Besides combining GNU Classpath with the runtimes and compilers above -you might want to add support for encryption libraries as provided by -GNU Crypto (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-crypto/). -And for additional extension libraries (mail, xml, activation, infobus, -servlet) check out GNU ClasspathX (http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx). +you might want to add support for additional extension libraries (mail, +activation, infobus, servlet) check out the GNU ClasspathX project +(http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx). Some tools come with their own customized version of GNU Classpath. -Please check if there is a customised version available for the tool you -use before trying the bare bones GNU Classpath release. We are working with +Please check if there is a customized version available for the tool you +use before trying the bare bones GNU Classpath release. We are working with the tool creators to keep the differences between the core classes as small -as possible. Please tell us if you make GNU Classpath work with a new tool. +as possible. Please tell us if you make GNU Classpath work with a new tool. Active projects which use modified versions of the Classpath libraries some of which synchronizes with the Classpath CVS head every couple of weeks:
