Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
On thing to think about (which I didn't realize until now) is that HDK
should sit above /classlib in the tree right? the VMs will need it as
well. I imagine :
enhanced/
classlib/
drlvm/
jchevm/
bootvm/
So maybe add a
enhanced/common
directory in which the HDK sits by default?
I'd like to avoid the structural balkanization of making classlib an
island.
I had imagined that HDKs would be packaged up as zips and made available
in a similar way to snapshots, rather than having a tree of binaries
checked into
SVN. IMHO keeping it as a zip makes unpacking it where you want very simple,
allows you to easily keep a "known good" HDK configuration locally (in the
form of the original zip) and makes it very easy to get previous versions of
the HDK (just download an earlier zip).
I'd be interested to hear what general consensus on this matter is, and
how mailing list members would prefer the HDK to be provided.
We discussed [1] that having separate HDKs for each VM and for classlib
makes sense - as long as we keep them in a uniform shape, then they can
easily
overlaid onto each other to allow a developer to work on the classlib
and the
VM of their choice.
I don't see this separation of classlib and VMs as a bad thing. I think that
having a VMI enabling us to develop the classlib and VMs as distinct units,
and developing using potentially disparate methods and build systems that
most suit that component, is one of the cool things about Harmony!
Regards,
Oliver
[1]
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200605.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
geir
Oliver Deakin wrote:
Hi all,
I have opened HARMONY-485, which proposes an additional doc for the
website describing the HDK and its contents.
The layout of the HDK described in the doc matches that produced by
the build script alterations raised in
HARMONY-469.
I hope that eventually (once the natives are modularised
and build scripts are altered to understand/use the HDK) the doc will
expand into a more full description of how developers can use the HDK
to rebuild Java/native code.
Regards,
Oliver
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