Re: [Classpath] AWT progress

[C. Scott Ananian]

On 16 Jul 2002, John Leuner wrote:

> After rewriting the class initializer code in kissme, I got to the
> following stage with the TestAWT program:
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~jewel/kissme/shots/kissme_awt.png
> 
> Unfortunately nothing else works, but it's a big improvement (previously
> a deadlock occurred with class initialization).

are you talking about circular dependencies between class initializers?
I'm interested to know the details because FLEX (http://flexc.lcs.mit.edu)
is going to be moving from a Sun-based class library to GNU classpath very
shortly, and getting AWT working was on my list of things to do...
 --scott

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