Future blog

2010-12-07 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi all, For those who didn't see Pekka's blog on planet.classpath.org you can find it here: http://penberg.posterous.com/whats-the-future-of-gnu-classpath He makes some very good points. I agree with all of them. Now the cool thing would be if I said "lets do them all right now!". But instead I a

Re: Future blog

2010-12-07 Thread Mario Torre
Il giorno mar, 07/12/2010 alle 23.06 +0100, Mark Wielaard ha scritto: > Hi all, > > For those who didn't see Pekka's blog on planet.classpath.org you can > find it here: > http://penberg.posterous.com/whats-the-future-of-gnu-classpath > > He makes some very good points. I agree with all of them.

Re: Future blog

2010-12-07 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 23:06 Tue 07 Dec , Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi all, > Hi Mark, I'll apologise in advance if some of what I've written below sounds harsh, but I'm not that happy with the state of Free Java generally right now. > For those who didn't see Pekka's blog on planet.classpath.org you can > find i

Re: Future blog

2010-12-07 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> As soon as I am back I would like us to at least start moving to >> mercurial on savannah if people don't mind. > > Yes, I do mind. > > We already discussed this some time back: > > http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath/2

Re: Future blog

2010-12-07 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> For those who didn't see Pekka's blog on planet.classpath.org you can >> find it here: >> http://penberg.posterous.com/whats-the-future-of-gnu-classpath >> >> He makes some very good points. I agree with all of them. > > I agree on th

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Gary Benson
Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > On 23:06 Tue 07 Dec, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > As soon as I am back I would like us to at least start moving to > > mercurial on savannah if people don't mind. > > Yes, I do mind. > > We already discussed this some time back: > > http://developer.classpath.org/piper

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Brian Jones
Hi all, long time, no commit. It is unclear from my vantage point what the purpose of Classpath should be. Most of the VMs I'm familiar with who were essentially customers in the past are moving to support openjdk's class library it seems Thank goodness for JamVM and all the rest over the yea

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 23:53 +, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > I'll apologise in advance if some of what I've written below sounds harsh, > but I'm not that happy with the state of Free Java generally right now. And I apologize for not stating the obvious. You are the only active maintaine

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 10:05 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: >> As is, if you're going to put some time in, I'd rather it was spent >> reviewing patches than messing about with the VCS. > > Point taken. In my defense, I like tinkering with "services" around the > code base. Having autobuilders, a good dvcs integ

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > Anyway, I don't mind that as long as someone else does it.  (Clearly, > the issue of developers without commit access is a red herring, as > every developer should have commit access.) But it's not a red herring! I don't expect to have commit

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > I hereby offer to review some patches.  Please send pointers to the > list. http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath-patches/2010-November/006511.html http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath-patches/2010-November/006513.

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 10:56 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> Anyway, I don't mind that as long as someone else does it. (Clearly, >> the issue of developers without commit access is a red herring, as >> every developer should have commit access.) > > But

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 10:58 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> I hereby offer to review some patches. Please send pointers to the >> list. > > http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath-patches/2010-November/006511.html > > http://developer.classpa

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > But I'm afraid people are looking at the things they think might make > a difference, but won't make a difference.  I read the list, and > haven't seen a huge number of unreviewed patches, but I admit I > haven't been paying close enough atten

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 10:58 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> I hereby offer to review some patches. Please send pointers to the >> list. > > http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath-patches/2010-November/006511.html This needs a ChangeLog, othe

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Andrew, On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 12/08/2010 10:56 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >>> Anyway, I don't mind that as long as someone else does it.  (Clearly, >>> the issue of developers without commit access is a re

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 11:23 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Andrew, Hi. > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 12/08/2010 10:56 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: Anyway, I don't mind that as long as someone else does it. (Clearly, >

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> There's also 10-15 patches from Ivan sitting in the archives > > Hmm, I had seen some discussion around those and thought they were being > addressed.  Bring them on! I'm not sure if this is all of it but it's a start anyway: http://develope

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath-patches/2010-November/006512.html > > What compatibility problem does this fix? That the result is not what we get with OpenJDK. JamVM, for example, (and I guess CACAO) has fixed this in thei

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 11:32 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >>> There's also 10-15 patches from Ivan sitting in the archives >> >> Hmm, I had seen some discussion around those and thought they were being >> addressed. Bring them on! > > I'm not sure if this

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Brian Jones
I've only recently gone from svn to git and honestly git is freaking awesome sauce. I'm pretty sure what you are missing is how much nicer having local branches can be for local development. The cvs way would be multiple checkouts, and a lot of manual diffing and merging. If Classpath were on

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> I'm not sure if this is all of it but it's a start anyway: >> >> http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath-patches/2010-June/006411.html > > Ah, yes, these were the patches that were sent hex encoded with a > MIME type of application/

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Gary Benson
Andrew Haley wrote: > On 12/08/2010 11:23 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > In any case, even if everyone did have commit access, CVS is still > > painful for *local* development. > > Not for me. I mean, it's not great, but it's hardly a big factor in > the time it takes to develop code. I think diffe

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 11:37 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >>> http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath-patches/2010-November/006512.html >> >> What compatibility problem does this fix? > > That the result is not what we get with OpenJDK. JamVM, fo

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> That the result is not what we get with OpenJDK. JamVM, for example, >> (and I guess CACAO) has fixed this in their tree as has GCJ. The test >> case I used for this is ClassTest.testGetSimpleName() here: >> >> https://github.com/penberg/malva

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 11:44 AM, Brian Jones wrote: > I've only recently gone from svn to git and honestly git is freaking > awesome sauce. > > I'm pretty sure what you are missing is how much nicer having local > branches can be for local development. The cvs way would be > multiple checkouts, and a lot

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 11:47 AM, Gary Benson wrote: > Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 12/08/2010 11:23 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: >>> In any case, even if everyone did have commit access, CVS is still >>> painful for *local* development. >> >> Not for me. I mean, it's not great, but it's hardly a big factor in >> t

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 11:49 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >>> That the result is not what we get with OpenJDK. JamVM, for example, >>> (and I guess CACAO) has fixed this in their tree as has GCJ. The test >>> case I used for this is ClassTest.testGetSimpleNa

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> No need to live with it, I'll fix it up and resend. > > This is truly weird.  The gcj patch says: > > 2008-05-22  Andrew Haley   > >        PR libgcj/35020 >        * java/lang/Class.java (getSimpleName): Import from GNU Classpath. > > http://

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 12:09 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >>> No need to live with it, I'll fix it up and resend. >> >> This is truly weird. The gcj patch says: >> >> 2008-05-22 Andrew Haley >> >>PR libgcj/35020 >>* java/lang/Class.java (

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Mario Torre
Il giorno mer, 08/12/2010 alle 09.26 +, Gary Benson ha scritto: > Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > On 23:06 Tue 07 Dec, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > As soon as I am back I would like us to at least start moving to > > > mercurial on savannah if people don't mind. > > > > Yes, I do mind. > > > >

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Brian Jones
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 12/08/2010 11:44 AM, Brian Jones wrote: > >> I've only recently gone from svn to git and honestly git is freaking >> awesome sauce. >> >> I'm pretty sure what you are missing is how much nicer having local >> branches can be for local develo

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Mario Torre
Il giorno mer, 08/12/2010 alle 13.45 +0200, Pekka Enberg ha scritto: > I completely agree. I have Ivan's patches locally and I'm planning to > go through them and resend them to the list unless he beats me to it. > >Pekka > If we were using mecurial we could use review b

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 12:57 PM, Mario Torre wrote: > Il giorno mer, 08/12/2010 alle 13.45 +0200, Pekka Enberg ha scritto: > >> I completely agree. I have Ivan's patches locally and I'm planning to >> go through them and resend them to the list unless he beats me to it. >> >>Pekka >

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Mario Torre
Il giorno mer, 08/12/2010 alle 13.03 +, Andrew Haley ha scritto: > On 12/08/2010 12:57 PM, Mario Torre wrote: > > Il giorno mer, 08/12/2010 alle 13.45 +0200, Pekka Enberg ha scritto: > > > >> I completely agree. I have Ivan's patches locally and I'm planning to > >> go through them and resend

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 01:23 PM, Mario Torre wrote: > Il giorno mer, 08/12/2010 alle 13.03 +, Andrew Haley ha scritto: >> On 12/08/2010 12:57 PM, Mario Torre wrote: >>> >>> If we were using mecurial we could use review board or webrew. >> >> We could, but these just introduce extra barriers: it's very e

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 09:20 Wed 08 Dec , Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes > > > > There are several inaccuracies in the points themselves.  I'm not too > > surprised, given that Pekka is still new to the project, but I am surprised > > that you'd agree wholeheartedly wit

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 11:05 Wed 08 Dec , Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 23:53 +, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > I'll apologise in advance if some of what I've written below sounds harsh, > > but I'm not that happy with the state of Free Java generally right now. > > And I apologize f

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 10:32 Wed 08 Dec , Andrew Haley wrote: > On 12/08/2010 10:05 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > >> As is, if you're going to put some time in, I'd rather it was spent > >> reviewing patches than messing about with the VCS. > > > > Point taken. In my defense, I like tinkering with "services" arou

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 11:13 Wed 08 Dec , Andrew Haley wrote: > On 12/08/2010 10:58 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> I hereby offer to review some patches. Please send pointers to the > >> list. > > > > http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath-patch

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 13:03 Wed 08 Dec , Andrew Haley wrote: > On 12/08/2010 12:57 PM, Mario Torre wrote: > > Il giorno mer, 08/12/2010 alle 13.45 +0200, Pekka Enberg ha scritto: > > > >> I completely agree. I have Ivan's patches locally and I'm planning to > >> go through them and resend them to the list unless

Re: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 08:16 Wed 08 Dec , Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes > wrote: > >> As soon as I am back I would like us to at least start moving to > >> mercurial on savannah if people don't mind. > > > > Yes, I do mind. > > > > We already discussed this some time

Re: Future blog

2010-12-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 05:17 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > On 11:13 Wed 08 Dec , Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 12/08/2010 10:58 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: I hereby offer to review some patches. Please send pointers to the list. >>> >>> h

Re: Future blog

2010-12-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 05:15 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > In Ivan's case, I've reviewed a number of the patches and I've had to > do work on most of them to get them in a state where they can be > committed. This is why I've been hesitant on giving commit access if > the result is that it will bre

Re: Future blog

2010-12-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 08:02 PM, Ivan Maidanski wrote: > I remember you (or someone else) had pointed me about of > inconvenience of reading my patches in the form they were attached > and I had promised to use ".diff.txt" file extension but forgot > about it after a long delay. (there is such problem in,

Re: Future blog

2010-12-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2010 08:02 PM, Ivan Maidanski wrote: > I remember you (or someone else) had pointed me about of > inconvenience of reading my patches in the form they were attached > and I had promised to use ".diff.txt" file extension but forgot > about it after a long delay. (there is such problem in,

Re: Future blog

2010-12-09 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 11:03 Thu 09 Dec , Andrew Haley wrote: > On 12/08/2010 08:02 PM, Ivan Maidanski wrote: > > > I remember you (or someone else) had pointed me about of > > inconvenience of reading my patches in the form they were attached > > and I had promised to use ".diff.txt" file extension but forgot >

Re: Future blog

2010-12-09 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 09:42 Thu 09 Dec , Andrew Haley wrote: > On 12/08/2010 05:17 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > On 11:13 Wed 08 Dec , Andrew Haley wrote: > >> On 12/08/2010 10:58 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > >>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > I hereby offer to review some pa

Re: Future blog

2010-12-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/09/2010 12:44 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > On 11:03 Thu 09 Dec , Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 12/08/2010 08:02 PM, Ivan Maidanski wrote: >> >>> I remember you (or someone else) had pointed me about of >>> inconvenience of reading my patches in the form they were attached >>> and I had

Re: Future blog

2010-12-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/09/2010 12:45 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > On 09:42 Thu 09 Dec , Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 12/08/2010 05:17 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: >>> On 11:13 Wed 08 Dec , Andrew Haley wrote: On 12/08/2010 10:58 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Andr

Re: Future blog

2010-12-12 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 12:45 +, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > I disagree. Just because the version in gcj is different doesn't mean > it's correct. As far as I'm aware, Pekka already has a testcase for > this so it would be good to have it in Mauve. Sorry for the delay, here's a test case fo

Re: Future blog

2010-12-13 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 10:54 Sun 12 Dec , Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 12:45 +, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > I disagree. Just because the version in gcj is different doesn't mean > > it's correct. As far as I'm aware, Pekka already has a testcase for > > this so it would be good to have it

Re[2]: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Ivan Maidanski
Hi, I remember you (or someone else) had pointed me about of inconvenience of reading my patches in the form they were attached and I had promised to use ".diff.txt" file extension but forgot about it after a long delay. (there is such problem in, say, hpl.com mailing list where I frequently se

Re[2]: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Ivan Maidanski
Hi Andrew and Pekka, Thank you Pekka but there are also some more ones (in June 2010): - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.classpath.patches/12989 (follow the link in body to get classpath-ivmai-05.diff); - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.classpath.patches/12988 (classpath-ivmai-

Re: Re[2]: Future blog

2010-12-08 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
2010/12/8 Ivan Maidanski : > Hi Andrew and Pekka, > > Thank you Pekka but there are also some more ones (in June 2010): > - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.classpath.patches/12989 (follow > the link in body to get classpath-ivmai-05.diff); > - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.clas