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From: | Bryce McKinlay |
Subject: | Re: Patch: merge File.toURI() from Classpath |
Date: | Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:09:44 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040626) |
David Daney wrote:
Yes, this is one of the "license terms" of the Java specification. Although we do not (can not) meet the other conditions of this license, the goal of the classpath project is to provide a class library that is compatible with the Java specification. Adding new public APIs to the core classes would mean that classpath is no longer compatible.Does it say somewhere that we cannot add public methods while maintaining compatibility with Sun's implementation?
I do not believe that RuntimeException is unsuitable. It seems a better match than InternalError.It doesn't seem like a good idea to use an unsuitable exception type just because its API has a slightly more elegant constructor.
Regards Bryce [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/relnotes/license.html
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