Re: Another Classpath / Kissme incompatibility

[Brian Jones]

David P Grove <address@hidden> writes:

> We've been slow doing the 1.2 JNI extensions in Jikes RVM -- basically as 
> we encountered programs that needed them.  This one does look pretty 
> trivial, so I may try to knock it off this week.
> 
> We've also observed that the recent changes to FileDescriptors caused 
> problems for Jikes RVM. Julian Dolby has some changes in the Jikes RVM 
> boot sequence that work around them, but hasn't checked them into the 
> Jikes RVM's cvs repository yet.  Our goal is to have Jikes RVM's cvs head 
> always work with both the latest release of classpath (0.05) and the 
> classpath cvs head. But, sometimes the system may not work with classpath 
> cvs head for a few days when we need to make changes to Jikes RVM to cope 
> with changes in classpath.  we do test this every night, and the results 
> are sent to the jikesrvm-regression mailing list, so if you are every 
> curious, you can check the archives of that list to see what the status of 
> jikes rvm/classpath cvs head is. 

Is it safe to say you're monitoring the list for discussion about
things that might affect Jikes RVM and will offer comments?  Good to
know on the support front, thanks.

Brian
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Brian Jones <address@hidden>