Re: gcj vs classpath merge status

[Aaron M. Renn]

Nic Ferrier (address@hidden) wrote:
> The page showing the merge status of libgcj and classpath shows that
> the classes:
> 
>    java.net.SocketInputStream
>    java.net.SocketOutputStream
> 
> have not been merged into libgcj yet.
>
> The main reason for this is that they don't exist in the Sun API.

These are not public classes.  They are used internally by the Classpath
implementation.

> Would the Classpath people like me to add timeout code to their Socket
> implementation?

Sure

> If so, would it also be okay to remove the stream classes and make
> them inner classes (of PlainSocketImpl). That should clear them off
> the merge list.

As they aren't public classes, I don't think this is necessary.  But
if you really want to, I would not object. (I personally don't care much
for inner classes all that much).

I believe all of the easy parts of java.net are already merged.  What
remains is the native stuff, including the corresponding Java classes
and URL's.  I think.

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