Re: Introduction/General questions

1998-07-20 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Yes. I would like to eventually add more functionality to the $classpath distribution (regexps are at the top of the list), but it's a little too early to start doing that. Also, in the case of GNU extensions (ie. not based on a Sun API), we might wish to make some of them GPL'd. Yeah, I was

Re: Introduction/General questions

1998-07-20 Thread Paul Fisher
"Aaron M. Renn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: True, but if Wes is interested in CORBA, I'd encourage him to do that. There are other people I know can code up java.text (like you, for example). So you want me to suffer brain damage, eh? I see how it is. :) Taligent should be shot for their

Klasses.zip

1998-07-20 Thread Tommy Reilly
What's this project's view of the java class library that comes with kaffe? It seems to be pretty far along and is GPL'd. Is it that Transvirtual owns the copyright? Surely their work can be used in this project (given the use of the GPL) can't it? Maybe the two can be merged? Kaffe:

Re: Introduction/General questions

1998-07-20 Thread Paul Fisher
"Aaron M. Renn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A lot of these are already done, so it's really just a packaging issue. Didn't Sun define a standard packaging format (Jar w/ a special manifest) for the 1.2 standard extensions? It seems like that would be the most useful thing for us to do. For

Re: Introduction/General questions

1998-07-20 Thread Paul Fisher
Wes Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just joined the list and have been reading through the existing guidelines and archives. I'd like to help. Sounds good. We need all the help we can get. Sorry for taking so long to reply -- I've been busy moving. Also, if regular expression support

Re: Introduction/General questions

1998-07-20 Thread Wes Biggs
Hmm, didn't mean to open a can of worms here. I agree that it's more important to have the core stuff done, and to that end I volunteer to do java.text, which no one really wants to have to implement and/or use, but hey, it's part of the spec. After that, maybe I will have the time to combine