Re: [classlib] splitting kernel in two

2006-04-03 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Tim Ellison wrote: > Please ensure your student feels welcome to send comments and questions > to the dev list. There are lots of people here who can help. I invited a student to present himself and send some question to this list. He'll probably do it soon. We have started playing around with

Re: [classlib] splitting kernel in two

2006-04-02 Thread Tim Ellison
Etienne Gagnon wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > Not sure what others think... Personally, I would highly recommend > being very careful before (or when?) changing kernel classes, as > changing them could lead to a very unstable VM interface if care isn't > put into preserving stability. An unstable VMI i

Re: [classlib] splitting kernel in two

2006-04-02 Thread Tim Ellison
-- >> From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 7:33 AM >> To: harmony-dev >> Subject: [classlib] splitting kernel in two >> >> FYI: To accurately reflect the modularity of the classlib code I'm >> about to split the ker

RE: [classlib] splitting kernel in two

2006-04-01 Thread Nathan Beyer
the kernel APIs. -Nathan -Original Message- From: Etienne Gagnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 7:14 PM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [classlib] splitting kernel in two Hi Nathan, Not sure what others think... Personally, I would highly recom

Re: [classlib] splitting kernel in two

2006-03-31 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Nathan, Not sure what others think... Personally, I would highly recommend being very careful before (or when?) changing kernel classes, as changing them could lead to a very unstable VM interface if care isn't put into preserving stability. An unstable VMI is not something I would like to li

RE: [classlib] splitting kernel in two

2006-03-31 Thread Nathan Beyer
f this is a RTFM question, then feel free to point me back to the VMI documents with a scolding. Thanks. -Nathan > -Original Message- > From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 7:33 AM > To: harmony-dev > Subject: [classlib] splitting kernel

Re: [classlib] splitting kernel in two

2006-03-31 Thread Tim Ellison
They are the only two that have kernel dependencies at the moment. Once we get into some of the new 5.0 packages (e.g. j.u.concurrent) I'd expect to see a few new modules with vm-specific types. Regards, Tim Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Are there any others that you might do while in there? > >

Re: [classlib] splitting kernel in two

2006-03-31 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Are there any others that you might do while in there? Tim Ellison wrote: FYI: To accurately reflect the modularity of the classlib code I'm about to split the kernel-stubs.jar into two separate pieces that represent the 'vm-specific' parts of luni.jar and security.jar. This means that luni an

[classlib] splitting kernel in two

2006-03-31 Thread Tim Ellison
FYI: To accurately reflect the modularity of the classlib code I'm about to split the kernel-stubs.jar into two separate pieces that represent the 'vm-specific' parts of luni.jar and security.jar. This means that luni and security are no longer artificially coupled by a single kernel. Regards, T