Re: Classpath License, Phillosophy, and AICAS

[Michael Koch]

Am Mittwoch, 11. August 2004 19:29 schrieb Casey Marshall:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Koch <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Michael> Am Mittwoch, 11. August 2004 01:39 schrieb Casey Marshall:
> >> Ok, so if I understand this thread, the question is whether or
> >> not to drop a fairly clumsy, ugly, and hard-to-debug
> >> OS-dependent layer from Classpath that is really only used by a
> >> non-free virtual machine.
> >>
> >> Why is this a difficult decision? What exactly does your
> >> proprietary VM do for us?
>
> Michael> Thats not true. Its currently used by jamvm, kissme and I
> think Michael> sablevm, probably more.
>
> Ok, I didn't know that. From the thread it didn't seem like it.
>
> I assume you mean it's used by them because it is in Classpath, not
> because they needed it. But you seem to be trying to make it sound
> more useful than it is; why?

Well its used by them because it is currently (?) the native 
implementation for some stuff in classpath. I dont want to make it 
more/less useful then it is. I just wanna have maintainable native 
code.


Michael