Re: Summer Of Code 2006 - Lets get Harmony involved

2006-04-21 Thread Gerry Steele
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Re: [Fwd: TALK:Wednesday 3-1-06 Evolution of the Java (tm) Programming Language an]

2006-02-23 Thread Gerry Steele
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Re: Do we want to be bug compatible? (was: Re: newbie to project-where to start from)

2006-02-20 Thread Gerry Steele
doesn't satisfy its spec. Therefore to be > spec-compatible here should not cause a problem. > > [snip] > > Sure, we do not have to copy obvious bugs like SIGSEGVs, but we still have > > to > > carefully work with all the cases when we can potentially break existing > > applications. > > +2 (with both hands :-) ) > > -- > Anton Avtamonov, > Intel Middleware Products Division > -- Gerry Steele http://gerry-steele.blogspot.com/

Re: Linux Jar file execution

2005-06-02 Thread Gerry Steele
. -Gerry On 6/2/05, Gerry Steele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yea, > > I think the challenge is making it a core kernel feature rather than > something the users will have to compile and install themselves, ie, a Linux > kernel above a certain future version would

Linux Jar file execution

2005-06-02 Thread Gerry Steele
believe this might help usability a bit on Linux. It just occurs to me that an Open Source Java has a hell of a greater chance of working with the Kernel guys / Linus than Sun might ever have. Another point for harmony :). Gerry -- Gerry Steele

Re: JIRA and SVN

2005-05-23 Thread Gerry Steele
have the functionality but only one look and feel. Or perhaps we > > could go the route of python and use the wxWidgets framework. > > Opinions? > > It's gotta be the same experience for a user as if using Sun's > implementation. > > geir > > > &

Re: Native Calls?

2005-05-12 Thread Gerry Steele
ike native calls > will not be necessary. Is that true? I highly support that as it's > disappointing to see calls like stackTrace require a native call. > > > Steven > -- Gerry Steele x74521/+353-1-8199 521 http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/gerrys [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backward compatibility

2005-05-11 Thread Gerry Steele
contribute! Gerry On 5/12/05, FaeLLe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Very intresting and well noted writeup sir an insight from a Sun employee > is always a bonus. > > I will for sure followup comments on this article and see what the > community has to say on this post.

Re: Backward compatibility

2005-05-11 Thread Gerry Steele
not try to pollute the stream we all > drink from, therefore want to contribute some of their code to Harmony, > we will welcome them with open arms. > > -- > Stefano. > > -- Gerry Steele x74521/+353-1-8199 521 http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/gerrys [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED]