Re: Building choices (was: Re: Code contribution to harmony)

2005-11-30 Thread Andrey Chernyshev
On 11/23/05, Graeme Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'make' also simplifies the bootstrapping issue. When you are doing the initial port of the VM to a new platform, and you don't have java running yet, having your build instructions encoded in Ant is problematic. Well, good point. However,

Re: Building choices (was: Re: Code contribution to harmony)

2005-11-23 Thread Graeme Johnson
Tim Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/21/2005 07:17:16 AM: Andrey Chernyshev wrote: On 11/15/05, Tim Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the end we decided to go with a 'conventional' native code tool set for the native source, and 'conventional' Java code tools for the Java source.

Re: Building choices (was: Re: Code contribution to harmony)

2005-11-23 Thread Ashish Ranjan
that is the most convincing argument till now. :-) bye :-) Ashish Ranjan India [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/23/05, Graeme Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/21/2005 07:17:16 AM: Andrey Chernyshev wrote: On 11/15/05, Tim Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Building choices (was: Re: Code contribution to harmony)

2005-11-23 Thread Robin Garner
Matt Benson wrote: --- Ashish Ranjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that is the most convincing argument till now. :-) +1 from an Ant PMC member. That logic is irrefutable. :) -Matt What about cross-compilation/cross-building ? If harmony is to be successful in its goal of wide

Re: Building choices (was: Re: Code contribution to harmony)

2005-11-21 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:17:16PM +, Tim Ellison wrote: There is a distinction to be drawn between the portability of the 'product' (i.e. the VM, class libaries, tools, etc.) that we are building, and the portability of the toolsuite that is used to build it. Hmm. I'm not convinced of