Re: Task: java.awt.geom.GeneralPath

[Thomas]

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On Monday 10 May 2004 09:25, Michael Koch wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 9. Mai 2004 08:47 schrieb Thomas Zander:
> > On Saturday 08 May 2004 18:52, Sven de Marothy wrote:
> > > Should one aim at reproducing the Sun implementation, or at being
> > > a 'correct' one?
> >
> > It is my understanding that we implement the spec; so bugs in Suns
> > code are not relevant information for us.
>
> Thats not totally true, we have some places where we imitate bugs in
> SUNs JDK to stay compatible for apps depending on this bug.

I assume that this is done only in sporadic cases, right? My idea here was 
that we follow the spec, and if Sun is not doing that that means either the 
spec of their implementation should be fixed. (which is true with or without 
classpath).

I ask this since I run into numerous bugs in their Swing implementation on a 
daily basis; I surely hope we strive to have a good implementation that makes 
coding Java-Swing easier as apposed to one that is just as buggy as Suns 
implementation for the sake of compatability.
Before people start to say that that WORA is important; at least in Swing this 
is irrelevant; each version has been incompatible with the previous anyway.

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Regards
Thomas
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