Re: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 17:01 +0500, usman bashir wrote: > i am looking over this and really appreciate a quick response. and one > thing i want to add up, i would really like to see improvements in > Javax.sound packages Sorry, it is getting late already. I wanted to go over the whole list

Re: Eclipse part 2

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:44 +0100, Tim Ellison wrote: > There are two distinct groups within IBM doing class library work -- > hey, it's a big place! > > One group provides a robust J2SE based on the Sun libraries for many IBM > products/platforms [1]. The other group has no access to Sun co

a harmonious and inclusive community

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:18 +0100, Tim Ellison wrote: > It seems that all roads lead back to the discussion of licensing and > philosophy. Even that has degenerated into name calling which is > unhelpful for building a harmonious and inclusive community. > > While I understand perfectly that

Re: [arch] VM/Classlibrary Interface (take 2)

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 05:53 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > We seem to be giving mixed signals here. Can we try to coordinate a > > bit more on the policies we want to have for this project? Even if we > > cannot agree on some things it would be good to setup some resolution > > mecha

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 05:52 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > What do you have to negotiate? We want to define an interface for > the VM and Class library that is 100% usable by anyone and everyone. > I always imagined that we'd define the interface, and then each do an > independent

Re: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Tim" == Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Just some random thoughts on this. Tim> The goal is to (a) stimulate discussion, and (b) think about the Tim> components that we should declare with well-defined interfaces to other Tim> components (I'm thinking of OSGi bundles here). In mos

Re: BoF Session at ApacheCon EU tonight

2005-07-22 Thread Ian Darwin
> ... and as is becoming > traditional with the project, we went for beer afterwards. > Glad you're keeping up the tradition of the "first meeting", even though this one seems to have been a bit more formal (and better attended!?). --Ian

Re: BoF Session at ApacheCon EU tonight

2005-07-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
BOF session was well attended and we had a good time. We had the #harmony IRC channel up on screen, and Leo was kind enough to do the typing. We had members of the GNU Classpath community with us on IRC, and Dalibor from Kaffe was there in person. We reviewed the project basics, talked a

Slashdot coverage

2005-07-22 Thread Andreas Ravnestad
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/22/145210&tid=136&tid=108&tid=1 Kind regards, Andreas Ravnestad

RE: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread Sven de Marothy
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 16:17 +0200, Jeroen Frijters wrote: > Actually, it underestimates the number of errors. For binary > compatibility the results are still valid though. The differences really > only matter for source level (and to a limited degree reflection) > compatibility. Really? Ok. I got

RE: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread Jeroen Frijters
Sven de Marothy wrote: > Please observe that JAPItools isn't fully 1.5-compatible > (read: problems with generics, I think), so it reports more > errors than what's actually there. Actually, it underestimates the number of errors. For binary compatibility the results are still valid though. The d

Re: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread Sven de Marothy
Mark, Classpath does have an "inofficial" JAPI comparison against 1.5, it's right here: http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/h-jdk15-classpath.html Please observe that JAPItools isn't fully 1.5-compatible (read: problems with generics, I think), so it reports more errors than what's actually

Re: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread Ian Darwin
Maybe put "text" into that group (who consistently & correctly remembers whether Locale is in text or util? :-)). There is a wad of logic to get right for the bidi, word/line/sentence boundary detection, etc. I can imagine a world with updates required here that are independent of ot

Re: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread Tim Ellison
Ian Darwin wrote: > Tim Ellison wrote: > >> Here's a list of the packages in J2SE 5.0, and my strawman grouping of >> packages into 'components' (terminology to be agreed :-) ). >> >> The goal is to (a) stimulate discussion, and (b) think about the >> components that we should declare with well-de

Re: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread usman bashir
Thnx Mark! i am looking over this and really appreciate a quick response. and one thing i want to add up, i would really like to see improvements in Javax.sound packages of sun (just recent headache faced so bit curious about it) and as well as no one offering much support in JMF (i should say

Re: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread Ian Darwin
Tim Ellison wrote: Here's a list of the packages in J2SE 5.0, and my strawman grouping of packages into 'components' (terminology to be agreed :-) ). The goal is to (a) stimulate discussion, and (b) think about the components that we should declare with well-defined interfaces to other componen

Re: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread Dalibor Topic
Mark Wielaard wrote: > I believe kaffe.org has some 1.5 comparisons. See http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/h-jdk15-classpath-generics.html for the status of the generics branch, and http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/h-jdk15-classpath.html for the status of classpath HEAD branch. T

Re: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:24 +0500, usman bashir wrote: > I have question to mark! which is missing in ClassPath, just an bird eye > answer :) Quick answer. Really busy at the moment. I wanted to thank Tim for pushing for "a harmonious and inclusive community" and just pointing out concrete g

Re: Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread usman bashir
I have question to mark! which is missing in ClassPath, just an bird eye answer :) On 7/22/05, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's a list of the packages in J2SE 5.0, and my strawman grouping of > packages into 'components' (terminology to be agreed :-) ). > > The goal is to (a)

Re: Eclipse part 2

2005-07-22 Thread Tim Ellison
There are two distinct groups within IBM doing class library work -- hey, it's a big place! One group provides a robust J2SE based on the Sun libraries for many IBM products/platforms [1]. The other group has no access to Sun code and provides a (similarly robust ) smaller set of IBM-authored lib

Class library componentization

2005-07-22 Thread Tim Ellison
Here's a list of the packages in J2SE 5.0, and my strawman grouping of packages into 'components' (terminology to be agreed :-) ). The goal is to (a) stimulate discussion, and (b) think about the components that we should declare with well-defined interfaces to other components (I'm thinking of OS

Re: Eclipse part 2

2005-07-22 Thread Michael Haupt
Hi, that's good news. :-) Does IBM have an in-house implementation of the standard libraries that could be released under ASL? Or is the IBM JDK delivered with the Sun libraries? Greetings, Michael Haupt

Re: [legal] Mailing list policy

2005-07-22 Thread Tim Ellison
It seems that all roads lead back to the discussion of licensing and philosophy. Even that has degenerated into name calling which is unhelpful for building a harmonious and inclusive community. While I understand perfectly that unifying the existing efforts in J2SE-space is a goal of Harmony, I

Re: Eclipse part 2

2005-07-22 Thread usman bashir
yeah and i am seeing many more to come, but we need a direct goal to avoid the "rough edges" but i hope it will take time though!! On 7/22/05, Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good work Geir and whoever else is working away behind the scenes. This > is great news! > > Geir Magnusson