Re: GCJ Native Proposal
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Michael Koch wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 01:13:23PM -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote:
[...]
|>I would like to name the secondary native packages with a -jbi prefix
|>(Java Binary Interface). Some people like the name -bcabi because that
|>is what the GCJ folks tend to refer to it as. BC ABI: Binary Compatible
|>Application Binary Interface. I don't think bcabi is descriptive at all.
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| -jbi is a bad name as none else on this planet knows the interface under
| this name I would prefer -bcabi (as this is the name its called
| upstream) or -gcj (to make clean where it comes from).
[...]
If upstream already has a name, we should adhere to that. We can't
reinvent the technical terminology of upstream sources because we don't
like it; that's what Microsoft is for.
8^)
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