Re: [cp-patches] FYI: Bumped up serialVersionUIDs in javax.swing

[Michael Koch]

On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:09:00AM +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 23:14 +0200, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I updated all serialVersionUIDs in the javax.swing package to be
> > compatible with JDK1.4. I intentionally left out some cases where I
> > would probably break build with GCJ3 (accessible stuff). Have me made
> > any progress on this issue?
> > 
> > 2005-05-27  Roman Kennke  <address@hidden>
> > 
> >         * javax/swing/AbstractButton.java:
> >         Bumped up serialVersionUID(s) to JDK1.4 compatibility.
> >         * javax/swing/ImageIcon.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/JFileChooser.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/JInternalFrame.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/JMenu.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/JRadioButton.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/JScrollPane.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/JSpinner.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/JTabbedPane.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/ImageIcons.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/JToggleButton.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/JToolTip.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/JViewPort.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/LayoutFocusTraversalPolicy.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/SpinnerDateModel.java: Likewise.
> >         * javax/swing/TransferHandler.java: Likewise.

We had decided in the past to ignore this stuff in Swing.

> From what I recall, we decided to drop pre-GCJ 4 support,
> which presumably means the accessibility stuff can now
> go through.

Afaik there was no decision yet. We still support GCJ 3.3 and up.

> However, I haven't seen any movement on this, and I don't recall a patch
> to the configure process going through.  Can anyone provide
> more definite info on the status of this?

Without some decision on what to depend now? Mark still wants to support
GCJ 3.4 for next release which is kind of pointless in my eyes.


Michael
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