Re: Classpath 0.00 Released

1999-02-07 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Godmar Back wrote: > I suggested at some point to make classpath modular in that you could > build single packages only and use them separately. The intention was > that users could use parts of classpath that did not rely on the VM-specific > layer (i.e., that are pure Java+JNI) with other VMs,

Re: java.security.{MessageDigest,DigestOutputStream}

1999-02-07 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Geoff Berry wrote: > I'm about to start writing > java.security.{MessageDigest,DigestOutputStream} along with an > implementation of the SHA algorithm since these are used by > ObjectStreamClass to compute serialVersionUID's. These all seem like > fairly simple classes, I just wanted to check wit

java.security.{MessageDigest,DigestOutputStream}

1999-02-07 Thread Geoff Berry
This is directed at Aaron, but comments from anyone else are welcome. I'm about to start writing java.security.{MessageDigest,DigestOutputStream} along with an implementation of the SHA algorithm since these are used by ObjectStreamClass to compute serialVersionUID's. These all seem like fairly

Re: Copyright Comments

1999-02-07 Thread Paul Fisher
John Keiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've noticed that a lot of the copyright comments are written thusly: Per GNU coding standards, multi-line comments should look like this: /* this is a multi-line comment */ So the same should apply to our file headers. -- Paul Fisher * [EMAIL PRO

Re: Classpath 0.00 Released

1999-02-07 Thread Godmar Back
> > "Aaron M. Renn" wrote: > > > 3). What is required to build/install/run? > > > > GNU Classpath requires that Japhar 0.07 be installed. Information on > > obtaining Japhar is available from http://www.japhar.org/. A working > > C compiler is also required. You will need the Sun JDK instal

Re: GNU web pages

1999-02-07 Thread Brian Jones
Paul Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Aaron M. Renn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I like the new pages. The only thing I would add is a "News" > > section before Documentation with links to announcements and stuff. > > (Our initial announcement and the first release announcement could

Re: Classpath 0.00 Released

1999-02-07 Thread Brian Jones
"Aaron M. Renn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alex Nicolaou wrote: > > You should mention Jikes if it is verified to build the classes as well. > > After all, with Jikes + Japhar + Classpath, the end user should > > ultimately have a complete open-source Java solution. > > We've got some depende

Re: new volunteer

1999-02-07 Thread Artur Biesiadowski
"Aaron M. Renn" wrote: > Have you looked at DOC++ as a JavaDoc replacement? Does it measure up? It is C++ AFAIK and do not allow doclets to be plugged in. For plain documentation it is probably not problem, but if at some time we would like to add some tags like @fixme, @differFromJDK or someth

Re: new volunteer

1999-02-07 Thread Paul Fisher
"Aaron M. Renn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you looked at DOC++ as a JavaDoc replacement? Does it measure up? For some reason, I guess the last time I looked at it, it didn't support JavaDoc, but it appears to now. The bad news is that it's non-free software. The authors make a contrad

Re: new volunteer

1999-02-07 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Paul Fisher wrote: > There's plenty of help that we could use with documentation. We're > badly in need of a JavaDoc replacement, so that's something that might > be an option for you. We also need something along the lines of the > GNU C Library Reference Manual for Classpath. I've always plan

Re: GNU web pages

1999-02-07 Thread Paul Fisher
"Aaron M. Renn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like the new pages. The only thing I would add is a "News" > section before Documentation with links to announcements and stuff. > (Our initial announcement and the first release announcement could > go there). There is an announcements section.

Re: Classpath 0.00 Released

1999-02-07 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Alex Nicolaou wrote: > You should mention Jikes if it is verified to build the classes as well. > After all, with Jikes + Japhar + Classpath, the end user should > ultimately have a complete open-source Java solution. We've got some dependency problems with Jikes as well. (Maybe I'll try the jik

Re: GNU web pages

1999-02-07 Thread Aaron M. Renn
Paul Fisher wrote: > Assuming everyone is happy with the new pages, I'll announce them on > the ``What's New'' portion of www.gnu.org and link to them from the > main GNU software page. I like the new pages. The only thing I would add is a "News" section before Documentation with links to announ

Re: Classpath 0.00 Released

1999-02-07 Thread Alex Nicolaou
"Aaron M. Renn" wrote: > 3). What is required to build/install/run? > > GNU Classpath requires that Japhar 0.07 be installed. Information on > obtaining Japhar is available from http://www.japhar.org/. A working > C compiler is also required. You will need the Sun JDK installed if you > elec

Re: Classpath 0.00 Released

1999-02-07 Thread Brian Jones
"Aaron M. Renn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1). Where can I get it? > > GNU Classpath 0.00 can be downloaded from: > > ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/classpath-0.00.tar.gz This needs to be mentioned on the web page on gnu.org instead of where it says "there have been no public releases"

Re: Copyright Comments

1999-02-07 Thread Brian Jones
I usually end up deleting all those begin comments John. Java doesn't care, C does. Brian John Keiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've noticed that a lot of the copyright comments are written thusly: > > /* > /* Boolean