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

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 17:14, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> 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,
> dalibor topic

Only problem there is that it looks like its our problem.  With some
people, however much you tell them, that's how they'll see it.  It
brings Word into it again; we all know that things like OpenOffice.org
have problems with Word documents due to MS, but a lot of people see it
as a flaw in OpenOffice.org.

If we can avoid this by including something which we'll need in the long
run anyway, I think its preferable, even though its really a case of
fixing Sun's bugs (but then again, we're being the ones who don't hold
the grudge by doing so..)

Cheers,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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