Re: Sponsor for a bootstrapping Java++ compiler
Hi,
Thanks for your answer, I had given up hope!
The package cannot yet be built entirely with free tools (it needs a JVM
at build time to run the bootstrap compiler). It works with kaffe from
CVS, but not 1.0.7, so I hope there will be a new release soon.
Have you file a wishlist bug against kaffe? Or even a bug, when it's a bug
that causes the problem.
I didn't, because I know the bug is fixed upstream.
Are you suggesting that the bugfix be back-ported to the version in Debian?
Or that there would be a package made of the current CVS status of
kaffe? Thatcould be either as a new version of the 'kaffe' package, or
as a new 'kaffe-snapshot' so people are not forced to upgrade.
Of course, new bugs could have been introduced too. Would other people
benefit from a version from cvs? 1.0.7 is quite old (july 2002), so I
think many bugs have been fixed since. People on the debian-java, what
is your experience with both versions?
Is the packager reading this?
Daniel
[OFFTOPIC]
PS: This part about Nice itself is offtopic. I reply below, and if you
want to discuss it further, you are very welcome to do it in private
email with me, or you can join the nice-info mailing list and raise the
issue there.
Homepage: http://nice.sourceforge.net
Looks nice ;) Though I have to say that what it tries to do does not have to
imply all the syntactic changes I see, or is all that really necessary?
Making so many changes to the syntax makes moving from Java<->Nice
too difficult.
We are trying to keep syntax compatibility with Java when it is possible
without damaging too much coherence. Virtually all Java expressions and
statements are accepted in Nice. The main difference is the syntax for
method declarations. There are reasons for that, since Nice is based on
multi-methods, but a compromise is also proposed.
Some other aspects are also still in discussion. This is a good time to
discuss these issues, since we are approaching a stable release (0.8),
the last one before 1.0, and I would rather do syntax changes now than
later.
What particular syntax differences are annyoing you?
Cheers,
Daniel
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