All, I'd like to share everyone's grief at the sight of outdated Getting Started document. However, I'd not hurry to eliminate the page as such. We might reconsider some of its contents, change structure, and update individual bits, but please think carefully before removing the page.
I think Getting Started (as the title shows) is aimed to help a newbie work with our vm. I know that many primarily interested in other things - conformance, architecture, internal specifics. However, we should also think how the vm is used. AFAIK, Getting started is now the *only* doc that tries to show how to use our vm. You tell people how to download and build, but almost nothing about how to run and configure (with the exception of EM/JIT). My suggestion would be to think of what you want to tell people about usage - with or without eclipse specifics. And store this info on the page. I know it is hard - and I offer my help and support in this burdensome initiative. Any thoughts? i might be inobjective and emotional :) Thank you, Nadya Morozova -----Original Message----- From: Mikhail Fursov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:03 PM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [doc][drlvm] The document "Getting started with DRL" is outdated It's not a hard to write a documenation once, it's hard to support it :) More problems: 1) -Xem options are obsolete. 2) -Xjit options are also obsolete. 3) Do we really need this page today? AFAIU users expect Harmony VM is able to run the same apps as RI.. ? On 11/8/06, Pavel Ozhdikhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > I've read through the "Getting Started with > DRL< > http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/subcomponents/drlvm/getting_started. html > >" > document on the Harmony web and found it completely outdated, for example: > > > - the term DRL is used instead of DRLVM > - eclipse.bat and eclipse.sh are obsolete - we don't need them anymore > to run Eclipse. It can be started with DRLVM the same way as with any > other > VM. > - We don't need to set PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH anymore, at least on > Windows/MSVC > - ij was renamed to java > > We took a big step to unification with other Java VMs and now > we don't need anything specific to run Eclipse, for example. After > removing > all irrelevant info the document would contain only the list of > command-line > options. I think we can move this list to a separate document (Wiki, > Developer's Guide?) and remove the "Getting Started" itself. > > Any opinions? > > Thanks, > Pavel > < > http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/subcomponents/drlvm/getting_started. html > > > > -- Mikhail Fursov
