Re: Working On Classpath

[Thomas Zander]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Thursday 27 May 2004 11:26, Michael Koch wrote:
> > footnote; I compiled Mauve some weeks ago only to find out that on
> > suns-javac it did not compile. The problem was an
> > illegal-code-construct. This tells me that jikes still is not
> > mature enough for production code (since many people compiled it
> > fine in the weeks before)
>
> I can compile Mauve fine with javac. 
This I posted a patch for some time ago, see:
cvs diff -r 1.1 -r 1.2 
gnu/testlet/java/text/SimpleDateFormat/attribute.java

> Except that its slow it works. 
> Jikes is so much faster. I dont wanna miss it. Since 1.18 its very
> stable and IMO more bug free then javac itself.
There are situations where javac is faster; for example when its called 
repeatedly from within the same JVM. Jikes would be slower due to mallocs 
and the linker taking time for each invocation.

> > The only answer I can give is that a superior technology that has
> > poor usability tends to be replaced.
>
> The autofriends vs. ant choice is no once and forever choice. one
> project can use autofriends and anohter ant.

I fully agree, these emails by me are to give some counterweight to the 
general opinion in the GNU communities, thats all.
The point is that I know quite a lot of non-open-source java developers, 
and all of them don't even WANT to come near the autotools.  If you are 
developing Java its a good idea to see that, in contrary to most other GNU 
tools, the majority of your users are on Windows, and even those that are 
not are not going to use autotools.

- -- 
Thomas
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAtg+5CojCW6H2z/QRAjArAKDBkAnZOqa+ylRi39iVggYXSWZqkQCgsUVP
r067DLO2kVK6YzI2Ww5IYM4=
=ViRS
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----