Re: CharSequence support

[Nic Ferrier]

>>> Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> 10-Jul-01 1:00:59 AM >>>

   I did not add the new 1.4 split() methods to String.
   They need java/util/regexp support. Maybe we can 
   ask Wes Biggs if we may import part of gnu.regexp to 
   implement it. It is licensed under the LGPL, but since it 
   seems to be a GNU package we might get it relicensed 
   under GPL+exception for Classpath/libgcj.

I've been thinking about this too.

I looked at Wes' regexp implementation some time ago and it was
pretty good.

IMHO the best thing to do would be to get Wes to join Classpath to
make the regexp package part of the overall project. Having a seperate
regexp package when it's also supplied by the core platform doesn't
make any sense. Java programmers won't expect that.


BTW I've been doing some socket code updates for GCJ (adding timeout
support). The problems in GCJ are now fixed (well, there's a patch).
I'm starting to think about the nio stuff now because it follows
similar lines to the stuff I've been doing.


I understand that the GCJ code and the Classpath code will need to
merge at some point. I'd like to help with that by doing a single 1.4
implementation of .net and the .net parts of .nio.

Hacking CNI is pretty easy compared to JNI, are there any guidelines
about how to make things portable between GCJ and Classpath?

Do the GCJ people keep their CNI interfaces and link with abstracted
C modules which are also linked by Classpath's JNI?

Or do you guys just not bother merging the native code?


Nic