hello Mark, On Wednesday 01 March 2006 22:23, Mark Wielaard wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 05:51 +1100, Raif S. Naffah wrote: > > what is the expected milestone (definition and how to measure it) > > to reach before releasing a version 1 --or 1.4 whatever that final > > number will be? > > According to our homepage it is: "GNU Classpath 1.0 will be fully > compatible with the 1.1 and largely compliant with the 1.2 API > specification and will have a stable API for interacting with virtual > machines." Which I think we have now (plus lots of additional 1.3, > 1.4 and 1.5 stuff).
i was, and still am interested, in getting a common consensus on what would constitute a "non 0. release"! > Personally I think 1.0 is when we feel it isn't just some > experimental code anymore, but that people can use GNU Classpath for > real world applications, and we feel comfortable supporting those > users. Which also has been true (for years). Just look at any recent > distribution... i would like to see a more quantifiable description of when we can say we reached that 1.0 release level. measuring a difference against the API of the JDK 1.4 is not enough, IMHO, as a target milestone. i do agree with you that applications, and i would add tools, would be a better measure of our readiness for a 1.0 release. having a specific list of (JDK) tools we must have, and applications that must run with no errors or problems, will determine: a. the API implementations we have to have --does not matter then how close or far we are from the 100% API match. b. the bugs we have to squash, and c. the Mauve tests we have to monitor to ensure no regressions are introduced. and consequently if we have a 1.0 release, or how far we are from having one. cheers; rsn
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