Re: [vmi] showing help text

2006-09-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Weird - this showed up this morning on my machine. Sorry about delay. On Sep 20, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: I think we are agreeing, but have (at least) two things muddled up, so let me try and clarify: 1) Users want VM-specific help text when they use the Harmony launcher and run

Re: [vmi] showing help text

2006-09-20 Thread Tim Ellison
I think we are agreeing, but have (at least) two things muddled up, so let me try and clarify: 1) Users want VM-specific help text when they use the Harmony launcher and run java -help. 2) Users want tool-specific help when they use the tools launcher, e.g. javac -help. Dealing with them in

[vmi] showing help text (was: Re: [drlvm] Trouble Building DRLVM)

2006-09-19 Thread Tim Ellison
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Sep 19, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Ivan Volosyuk wrote: [SNIP] ./java Harmony Java launcher Apache Harmony Launcher : (c) Copyright 1991, 2006 The Apache Software Foundation or its licensors, as applicable. java [-vm:vmdll -vmdir:dir -D... [-X...]] [args] ./java:

Re: [vmi] showing help text (was: Re: [drlvm] Trouble Building DRLVM)

2006-09-19 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Sep 19, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Sep 19, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Ivan Volosyuk wrote: [SNIP] ./java Harmony Java launcher Apache Harmony Launcher : (c) Copyright 1991, 2006 The Apache Software Foundation or its licensors, as applicable. java

Re: [vmi] showing help text

2006-09-19 Thread Tim Ellison
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Sep 19, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: snip I'm going to modify the launcher to pass -help into the VM when it's been named java* so that it behaves like the tools that come with the Sun's, BEA's and IBM's impelmentation. As I

Re: [vmi] showing help text

2006-09-19 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Sep 19, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Tim Ellison wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Sep 19, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: snip I'm going to modify the launcher to pass -help into the VM when it's been named java* so that it behaves like the tools that come