Re: generics-branch

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 13:52, Stuart Ballard wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:21:39 +0100, Robert Schuster <address@hidden> wrote:
> > One could inspect genericism using reflection (e.g.
> > Class.getTypeParameters(), Constructor.getGenerictypeParameters()).
> > 
> > I would like to help adding generics support to japitools. Just send me
> > mail :-)
> 
> Jeroen and I are working on it, slowly, in between other projects. If
> you look at design/japi-spec-0.9.6 in japitools CVS
> (http://savannah.nongnu.org/project/japitools) we've got an initial
> representation for some of the generic information. We still have to
> implement support for this new format in Japize and Japicompat. Jeroen
> tells me that getting support in Japize will be pretty easy based on
> his bytecode reader library. If you're a perl hacker you could take a
> look at supporting the new format in japicompat if you like. It'll be
> a little complex because for comparison with old versions of APIs you
> need to be able to translate between the generic-aware form and the
> binary (generic-free) form. Otherwise I promise I'll get to it
> eventually - I've been working on another cool Classpath-related
> project recently, sorry.
> 
> > btw: Why aren't the comparison runs updated any more? (->
> > http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/h-jdk14-classpath.html)
> 
> The comparisons are run nightly, but I pull japi files from external
> sources to run them against. Tom Tromey provides the "nightly" japi
> files for classpath and libgcj, and apparently his builds have been
> failing or something. Dalibor Topic provides the files for Kaffe, but
> only when he runs them manually, which is only when people pester him
> ;)
> 
> Stuart.

Stuart,

The given link doesn't work; there is no such Savannah project.
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