Yeah, it would be easy enough to do :-) I've added some comments in
the header of each file to that effect. As for the (indirect) ties
with o.a.h.k.VM, that's just an implementation issue with the Messages
class; it should be fairly easy to roll out a less specific one for
the pack200 messages.

Alex.

On 15/10/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm assuming that the person just didn't know...  Please put a readme
into the root of the codebase so that these special circumstances are
known by others (assuming someone doesn't have a big problem with it...)

geir

Alex Blewitt wrote:
> On a related note, it seems that some changes have been committed that
> are using generics in the pack200 code. These will prevent it from
> being run on pre Java 1.5 systems, which again was one of my goals in
> writing this. I'll have to revert those changes, too ...
>
> Alex.
>
> On 15/10/06, Alex Blewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I was in the process of trying to put together a patch for the new
>> stuff that I've added recently, and it turns out that someone's gone
>> through and pulled out all of the hard-coded strings in the code and
>> added a dependency on
>> org.apache.harmony.archive.internal.nls.Messages, which in turn has a
>> dependency on org.apache.harmony.kernel.VM. This causes a few
>> problems:
>>
>> 1) There's now a tighter dependency from the pack200 code to the
>> Harmony VM. As I've noted previously, I was wanting to develop this as
>> a portable implementation of pack200 so that others could use it
>> outside of Harmony; for example, on JVMs prior to 1.5 that don't have
>> it built in.
>>
>> 2) The messages for Pack200 are now mixed up with the messages for the
>> remainder of the archive code, when they don't need to be. That means
>> exporting/building a separate Pack200 is going to have extra detritus
>> in it that doesn't n eed to be there.
>>
>> 3) There were a bunch of messages that I was leaving in the code (in
>> Error messages) reminding me to implement certain facets of the code,
>> that were never meant to be extracted. These have now been extracted
>> into a messages file with less than helpful 'archive.1C' messages left
>> behind.
>>
>> I'd really like to undo this set of changes and leave message
>> externalisation until later, once the implementation is complete. I
>> also want to avoid getting the pack200 stuff tied up any more than is
>> necessary with the Harmony VM, because it should be possible to use
>> this on other VMs (or even the standard Java Sun VM ... the pack200
>> code is switchable based on a property in any case).
>>
>> I'd also like to move the pack200 into its own module, so that when
>> messages do get externalised, they can be processed just for that
>> particular set of code and not lumped in with the remainder of the
>> archive code. I did suggest this in the past, although there was a
>> conclusion at the time that it wasn't worth doing at that time. I feel
>> that this is now the justification to separate the pack200 and archive
>> modules before it gets any more joined together.
>>
>> I'll hold off updating and submitting a patch until we can figure out
>> what's best to do with the code.
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>
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