Re: Java Policy.
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 06:22:30PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote:
> Sounds like Debian could use the same solution for gcj that Debian uses
> for emacs -> just distribute the .java files and do the ahead-of-time
> compilation (.java to .so) at install time. Is this automatic enough
> under gcj so that this could that work?
>
> Granted, the emacs solution is currently a bit klunky for the users, who
> have to put up with long compiles during install, but it does take the
> load off of the maintainers to have to precompile their stuff for
> multiple targets.
Well here we have two different problems. The emacs problem is that
the bytecode is incompatible among emacsen. There is just one gcj
at this time and so it should be no problem to compile it. So no we
should not for reasons stated in other mails.
Regards,
// Ola
> Cheers,
>
> - Jim
>
> On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 16:28, Stephen Zander wrote:
> > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Pimlott <ota-31@andrew.pimlott.net> writes:
> > Andrew> To clarify, I'm talking about Java code compiled (eg, by
> > Andrew> gcj) into architecture-specific machine code. These
> > Andrew> libraries are still meant to be used by Java code (also
> > Andrew> compiled with gcj), not C code. So I think java should
> > Andrew> still be part of the name.
> >
> > That statement is true iff you can use the gjc produced .so files with
> > kaffa/jdk/etc without *any* additional coding/configuratiojn/whatever.
> > I don't think that condition is satisfiable right now.
> >
> > .java => gjc => executable/shared object is a one-way function.
> >
> > --
> > Stephen
> >
> > "A duck!"
> >
> >
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