Re: Building choices (was: Re: Code contribution to harmony)

2005-11-30 Thread Andrey Chernyshev
On 11/23/05, Graeme Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'make' also simplifies the bootstrapping issue. When you are doing the > initial port of the VM to a new platform, and you don't have java > running yet, having your build instructions encoded in Ant is problematic. > Well, good point. Howe

Re: Building choices (was: Re: Code contribution to harmony)

2005-11-23 Thread Robin Garner
Matt Benson wrote: --- Ashish Ranjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: that is the most convincing argument till now. :-) +1 from an Ant PMC member. That logic is irrefutable. :) -Matt What about cross-compilation/cross-building ? If harmony is to be successful in its goal of wid

Re: Building choices (was: Re: Code contribution to harmony)

2005-11-23 Thread Matt Benson
--- Ashish Ranjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that is the most convincing argument till now. :-) +1 from an Ant PMC member. That logic is irrefutable. :) -Matt > bye :-) > Ashish Ranjan > India > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On 11/23/05, Graeme Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Tim E

Re: Building choices (was: Re: Code contribution to harmony)

2005-11-23 Thread Ashish Ranjan
that is the most convincing argument till now. :-) bye :-) Ashish Ranjan India [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/23/05, Graeme Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/21/2005 07:17:16 AM: > > > Andrey Chernyshev wrote: > > > On 11/15/05, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Building choices (was: Re: Code contribution to harmony)

2005-11-23 Thread Graeme Johnson
Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/21/2005 07:17:16 AM: > Andrey Chernyshev wrote: > > On 11/15/05, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>In the end we decided to go with a 'conventional' native code tool set > >>for the native source, and 'conventional' Java code tools for the

Re: Building choices (was: Re: Code contribution to harmony)

2005-11-21 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:17:16PM +, Tim Ellison wrote: > There is a distinction to be drawn between the portability of the > 'product' (i.e. the VM, class libaries, tools, etc.) that we are > building, and the portability of the toolsuite that is used to build it. Hmm. > I'm not convinced