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Re: Jikes RVM 2.2.0 now available
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Brian Jones |
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Re: Jikes RVM 2.2.0 now available |
Date: |
05 Jan 2003 19:42:09 -0500 |
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Michael Hind <address@hidden> writes:
> I thought this list might be interested in the announcement below,
> particularily the first highlight.
>
> As mentioned previously on this list, we have internally gotten Jikes RVM
> w/ Classpath to run Eclipse. This includes all basic functionality,
> except the complete Eclipse debugger. Also, compiling and running the
> developed Java application is limited to the library functionality of
> Classpath.
>
> As alluded to in the first bullet below, we plan to make this available in
> the 2.2.1 release, which we hope to get out within a month. It did
> require some bug fixes to Classpath, which Julian Dolby submitted patches
> for. (I believe they've either all been incorporated or are close to
> being incoporated by the Classpath team. Thanks!)
I think we'll have these completed soon enough then. When complete,
is there anything complicated to try this release with Classpath using
more of the excluded packages?
> Highlights of this release include:
> + Jikes RVM now mostly uses the GNU Classpath class libraries. All
> library packages except java.lang, java.lang.ref, java.lang.reflect,
> java.io, java.net, and java.util are from Classpath. We are optimistic
> that release 2.2.1 of Jikes RVM will be based entirely on the GNU Classpath
> libraries.
--
Brian Jones <address@hidden>