Re: Classpath future?

[Etienne M. Gagnon]

John Keiser wrote:

> 1. Patches: Savannah is pretty cool, I wasn't really aware of it, not
> sure how I missed it.  I'll find that guy's patch and put it up there.
> Etienne, please put yours up there if you could.  We'll wrangle this out
> somehow :)


I think my patches were found.  So, at least, that matter is resolved.

[Last licensing comment:  I am not inclined to send paper work.  The FSF 
didn't send me paper work when I decided to use their code for SableVM. 
 Why should I when they use some of my code in their projects?  I put a 
clear license on my contributions, either you trust it, or not.  I see 
no reason to send paper work.  I trust the FSF, don't I, when I download 
their code?]

> Etienne, I'm not concerned with your forking (don't take that the wrong
> way).  If you want to make patches on your own version, go ahead, but
> try and stay in sync with the main tree.  The way I see it, by the time
> you have enough code to matter, either these issues will be resolved or
> forking will be fully justified.
>
> I'm curious now.  Are there forking tools for CVS that let you monitor
> for changes in the project you forked off of, and decide whether to
> merge the changes in automatically?  (Or even automatically accept all
> patches.)


Sablepath is already implementing some of the things I proposed:
(1) It is broken into 2 parts (sablepath-classes & sablepath-libs), each 
with its own build process.
(2) I have written custom scripts to convert a Classpath snapshot into 2 
source trees (java & native), and then I simply checkin the converted 
snapshots on vendor CVS branches, which then allows me to easily review 
patches and integrate lates changes into my main development branch.


Now, it would be nice if the JNI stuff wasn't duplicated in Classpath. 
(Some code was copied to native/jni, but then changes were applied onto 
the older stuff (Double.c I think, or something similar, not in the 
.../jni/ tree).  This seems pretty messy, and complicates my 
import/conversion procedure.

Etienne

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