Re: Another VM running classpath.org

[Brian Jones]

Michael Klaus <address@hidden> writes:

> > I think on the todo list (mental, group collective, etc.) is to take
> > everything with a native method and create two versions... Foo and
> > VMFoo.  VMFoo could have native methods and JNI or someone else could
> > provide VMFoo that is written in some completely different way.  Does
> > that help?
> 
> It takes us a step further definitely :o)
> 
> Just for clearance:
> We got a directory structure like
> <jnode>/src/classpath the core api packages from classpath.org
> <jnode>/src/jnode             out project specific packages
> 
> Our build.xml compiles both roots into one 'classes' directory.
> 
> In case of, java.io.File, we would
>       - create jnode/java/io/VMFile.java
>       - modify classpath/java/io/File.java to delegate all 
>         OS-dependent parts to java.io.VMFile
>       - donate the File.java to your project so all other VMs can
>         be made fit to this
> 
> Is that right?

I think so, but I'm now cc'ing the classpath list to make sure I got
this correct.  You might want to take a look at our requirements for
contributing code at http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/ in the
hacking guide.

Brian
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Brian Jones <address@hidden>