Re: [cp-patches] StringBuilder and Appendable for CVS HEAD

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Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:04, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
>
> > Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> >
> > > Attached is a patch to add StringBuilder (a non-threaded 
> > > derivative of StringBuffer) and Appendable,
> >
> > I'm not too thrilled about this. Last week I spent too much time
> > tracking down a non problem caused by Classpath's broken
> > javax.rmi.CORBA.Stub (it doesn't extend org.omg.CORBA.ObjectImpl). IMO
> > these hacks cause too many headaches. We should focus on providing a
> > stable (1.4 based) 1.0 release.
> >
> > BTW, does anybody know what the status is wrt the licensing of the omg
> > classes?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jeroen
>
>
> I agree; but this is code which has sat in the generics branch for
> several months, not something that has just been put together.  Also,
> this is something which will allow Classpath to work with existing code
> that just happens to be compiled with a 1.5 compiler (which does a
> StringBuffer for StringBuilder substitution in String use) but has no
> actual 1.5 changes.

I guess Sun learned a few tricks from Microsoft in their new blooming 
partnership, do as the Word division does, and the world will be forced 
to update to the latest release to be able to use the files generated 
with the latest version. :)

I think it's simpler to recompile the respective jar file from source 
with a non-broken compiler, and ask the upstream to do the same for the 
files they distribute.

cheers,
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