Re: kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe)

2007-06-24 Thread Dalibor Topic
Dalibor Topic wrote: Kiyo Inaba wrote: D] Merge in the dropped cygwin patch Still todo. I've made some progress on this, in that I've made the current GNU Classpath head build on Cygwin (patches mostly applied upstream). Now I'm making kaffe build with that, before I investigate the

Re: kaffe + classpath 0.95 (Was: Re: kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe))

2007-06-21 Thread Dalibor Topic
Mark Wielaard wrote: Hi Dalibor, On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 23:49 +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: Unfortuntely, there is one VM Interface change that (I assume) makes it hard to support both 0.93 and 0.95 (VMTimezone), so I think we should stay with 0.93 for the 1.1.8 release, and kick out a 1.1.9

Re: kaffe + classpath 0.95 (Was: Re: kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe))

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Dalibor, On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 23:49 +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: Unfortuntely, there is one VM Interface change that (I assume) makes it hard to support both 0.93 and 0.95 (VMTimezone), so I think we should stay with 0.93 for the 1.1.8 release, and kick out a 1.1.9 soon afterwards.

Re: kaffe + classpath 0.95 (Was: Re: kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe))

2007-06-14 Thread Dalibor Topic
Dalibor Topic wrote: Dalibor Topic wrote: This seems to work a bit better than I expected. I've just built Classpath 0.95 separately, and then built Kaffe using it [1], and, other than three failing regression tests (nothing really serious, just small changes in expected test output), it

Re: kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe)

2007-06-13 Thread Dalibor Topic
Dalibor Topic wrote: Looking at a gcc checkout, I see that the m68k gcc has a builtin define for coldfire, __mcoldfire__, couldn't we use that? (The builtin_define is in gcc/gcc/config/m68k/m68k.h) I've discussed that off-list with Roland (== tbfg on IRC), and according to his tests, gcc

kaffe + classpath 0.95 (Was: Re: kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe))

2007-06-13 Thread Dalibor Topic
Dalibor Topic wrote: Dalibor Topic wrote: Dalibor Topic wrote: D] Remove the merged in GNU Classpath and just use an existing installation I did the lower-half separation (separate build) but not yet change the upper-half to point the location of classpath. Ideas like

Re: kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe)

2007-06-12 Thread Dalibor Topic
Dalibor Topic wrote: Dalibor Topic wrote: D] Remove the merged in GNU Classpath and just use an existing installation I did the lower-half separation (separate build) but not yet change the upper-half to point the location of classpath. Ideas like 'with-classpath-prefix',

Re: kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe)

2007-06-12 Thread Dalibor Topic
Kiyo Inaba wrote: Dalibor and others, Dalibor wrote: D) Merge in tbfg's m68k patch. Kiyo, could you take a look at it? http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2007-June/104949.html Yes, I've spent some time to investigate this proposal. In general, the patch posted tries to comment out some

Re: kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe)

2007-06-11 Thread Dalibor Topic
Kiyo Inaba wrote: So, from releasing point of view (based on Dalibor's and Riccardo's wish list), we still have to D] Either fix the serialization bugs leading to the two failing regression tests, or mark them as XFAILs, and file bugs for it in GNU Classpath's tracker, adding the failing tests

Re: kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe)

2007-06-11 Thread Dalibor Topic
Dalibor Topic wrote: D] Remove the merged in GNU Classpath and just use an existing installation I did the lower-half separation (separate build) but not yet change the upper-half to point the location of classpath. Ideas like 'with-classpath-prefix', 'with-classpath-libdir' or

Re: kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe)

2007-06-11 Thread Kiyo Inaba
Dalibor and others, Dalibor wrote: D) Merge in tbfg's m68k patch. Kiyo, could you take a look at it? http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2007-June/104949.html Yes, I've spent some time to investigate this proposal. In general, the patch posted tries to comment out some instructions which are

Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe

2007-04-01 Thread Kiyo Inaba
Hi everybody, Hi Jim and everybody, Thanks Jim to keep kaffe.org up and running. So I'm assuming that the project isn't dead, it's just somewhat dormant. It's been somewhat dead/dormant throughout much of it's history, but it's still here, isn't it? :-) Yes, it's still here! As I posted

Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe

2007-03-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Jim Pick wrote: Hi everybody, Hi Jim! It's been a quiet month on the mailing list so far. That's partly my fault, I think, since the mailing list was broken for some time. Thank you for fixing it again. It looks like the last CVS commit was 5 weeks ago. I see Dalibor went to

kaffe 1.1.8 (Was: Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe)

2007-03-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Tim Bevan wrote: Jim Pick wrote: Dalibor has been doing a great job. * Speaking of releases, we really should do another release sometime. Yes please. I would like a stable version containing the fixes I needed. Thanks! Here is what needs to be done for 1.1.8: * Either fix the

Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe

2007-03-26 Thread Tim Bevan
Jim Pick wrote: Hi everybody, * I imagine that in the future, people will most likely look to OpenJDK as a starting point to add their enhancements. Is there still a role for Kaffe to play here? As a free open alternative probably. It may be that it has had it's day and OpenJDK will take

Re: [kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe

2007-03-26 Thread Tim Bevan
Jim Pick wrote: Hi everybody, It's been a quiet month on the mailing list so far. That's partly my fault, I think, since the mailing list was broken for some time. It looks like the last CVS commit was 5 weeks ago. I see Dalibor went to FOSDEM, and did some talking about Kaffe there. So I'm

[kaffe] Future directions for Kaffe

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Pick
Hi everybody, It's been a quiet month on the mailing list so far. That's partly my fault, I think, since the mailing list was broken for some time. It looks like the last CVS commit was 5 weeks ago. I see Dalibor went to FOSDEM, and did some talking about Kaffe there. So I'm assuming that the