Re: gnu and java domain dependencies: clean up?

[Michael Koch]

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Am Samstag, 12. Juni 2004 23:27 schrieb Nikolay Fiykov:
> hi,
>
> there is certain amount of cross references between
> gnu and java packages.
>
> even packages like java.lang are affected by it
> (using gnu.java.lang, gnu.java.util, gnu.classpath,
> gnu.java.io. same those packages can't be compiled
> without java.lang).
>
> any actual work to improve the situation?
> by whom?
>
> as i see it at least java.lang should be self
> suficient.

Thats not possible as the official API already needs stuff outside of 
java.lang, e.g. java.lang.Class needs java.security.ProtectionDomain 
and java.io.Inputstream. As you can easily see the gnu.* packages are 
only smalll helper packages with not much code. There is only shared 
code and stuff that not really suits into official java.* packages 
without breaking SUNs API. Its not possible to remove all 
inter-package dependencies without removing features of packages.


Michael
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