Re: State of AWT?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Jones <address@hidden> writes:

Brian> The most I've seen screen shots of is maybe a Frame and a
Brian> Button.  I think you should just merge them; I'm interested in
Brian> whether we'll continue to need/use the native peer approach or
Brian> not.

In that area both libgcj and Classpath are fairly similar; both use
peers.  In libgcj we had decided that we didn't need to be compatible
with the JDK in this area (the peer interfaces aren't documented any
more, and aren't officially part of the Java platform, I think), so we
removed a bunch of legacy methods and added some of our own.  At the
moment I'm not going to mess with this part of things; I'm sure that
will evolve later.

AWT is very tightly connected internally.  I started off last night
just trying to merge two classes -- but you can't just stop at 2.

Tom