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RE: J2ME classes in GNU classpath
From: |
Andrew Haley |
Subject: |
RE: J2ME classes in GNU classpath |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:18:06 +0000 |
Anthony Green writes:
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:01 +0100, Rupert K. wrote:
> > Hi there
> > My name is rupert. I am the one who will implement
> > this j2me stuff as my
> > master thesis.
> > The goal of the project will be to implement the cldc
> > 1.1/midp 2.0
> > specification and make it runnable under the CacaoVM.
> > In the first step it will run under an pc-environment.
> > Later on we will
> > port it to an mobile device
> > The new API should be similar to the existing
> > classpath and/or using
> > parts of it.
>
> My favorite idea for turning GNU Classpath into a J2ME-like library
> would be to maintain a set of patches for converting the existing
> sources into the J2ME-like variant.
>
> I think the core classes aren't changing much anymore, so this isn't
> likely to be a huge maintenance job. Maintaining the work as patches
> means it's also easy to see when something in the core classes has
> changed, forcing us to modify the patches.
>
> Ideally these patches would be checked into the GNU Classpath tree and a
> simple configure option would allow us to generate and build these
> alternative classes.
>
> A long time ago I used to think that preprocessing would be the best way
> to do all this, but the difference between J2SE- and J2ME-like classes
> are too large.
I wonder if we can use svn to help us with this. A bunch of svn
changesets might be more useful and less messy than patches. And you
can easily make a patch from a bunch of svn changesets.
Andrew.
- Re: J2ME classes in GNU classpath, (continued)
- Re: J2ME classes in GNU classpath, Dalibor Topic, 2005/11/05
- Re: J2ME classes in GNU classpath, S. Meslin-Weber, 2005/11/05
- Re: J2ME classes in GNU classpath, Mark Wielaard, 2005/11/06
- Re: J2ME classes in GNU classpath, Christian Thalinger, 2005/11/12
- RE: J2ME classes in GNU classpath, Rupert K., 2005/11/22
- Re: J2ME classes in GNU classpath, Alexandre Courbot, 2005/11/22
- Re: J2ME classes in GNU classpath, Christian Thalinger, 2005/11/22