Re: JamVM 1.1.3 released

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 11:04, Robert Lougher wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> Yes, I know :)  I couldn't decide whether it was a good idea to slavishly 
> follow Sun's options or not. The -X (as you're obviously aware) means 
> "non-standard options", and includes -Xms and -Xmx which I also do not have 
> an X in front of (as used to be in JDK 1.1.x).  Also, on Sun's VM, 
> -classpath is specified as -classpath xxx:yyy whereas -Xbootclasspath is 
> -Xbootclasspath:xxx:yyy which is (in my mind anyway) confusing.  On JamVM 
> it's -bootclasspath xxx:yyy (added in 1.1.1), so I'd have had to change that 
> as well.
> 
> CC'ing to the mailing list, as I'm interested in other people's opinions on 
> this!
> 

I'd prefer that JamVM slavishly follow the options provided by Sun's
latest released java command.  There may be many scripts and tools that
assume e.g. the -Xbootclasspath:xxx:yyy syntax.  I think drop-in
compatibility is more important than a self-consistent set of
command-line options.

Tom