Re: JamVM 1.1.3 released

[Thomas Zander]

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On Tuesday 13 April 2004 17:04, 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!

In my opinion the GNU standard makes a lot more sense for any command line 
tool; even Java.
This means I would go even further; to have the 'classpath' option start 
with 2 dashes (--classpath) as we are used to from GNU tools.

The opinion that everything should look as much the same as possible seems 
a bit naive (to me personally) in that I doubt any JVM could ever approach 
100% compatibility with the moving target of Sun.
Remember that the options and installation and various other little things 
change with each release! I surely hope the open source community will not 
follow Sun with that :}

Just my 2 cents.
- -- 
Thomas
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