Re: List of GNU Classpath compatible programs

[Chris Pickett]

address@hidden wrote:
> I'm wondering why the 'description' is the last entry where I expected it
> to be the first, just below the title of the product.  Any problem with me
> changing that?
> I'd like to make it more of a single-line advertisement for the
> application as well; this makes developers of that application more
> willing to post it to our site themselves.  Something like:
> Soot
> * Soot is a (LGPL) Java Bytecode compiler framework which can be uses to
>   optimize or inspect class files, as well as a framework to develop
>   optimizations or transformations on Java bytecode.
>
>
> Each product being mentioned could do with a (small) overview of what
> parts of classpath it uses.  Minimum JRE version required and/or what
> parts we had to debug a lot to get it to work.
>
> What do you think?

I think go for it man, it's a wiki!  As long as you're not destroying or 
submitting false or overly verbose info, nobody's going to mind.  The 
idea is each person contributes as much as they have energy for.

If this is going to scale (and if people show a lot of interest), some 
kind of queryable database would be best (with different categories, 
etc.).  I mean, there ARE thousands of Java programs that we want to 
run, right? ;)  But a wiki is enough for starters.

I think this is a really worthwhile effort.  At Sable we always have a 
terrible problem coming up with good benchmarks for papers, we're 
_still_ using SPECjvm98... and it might also provide a good motivation 
to build a (shared?) regression test-suite for VM's.

A License category with the free license specified if it exists would be 
good, with none (i.e. copyright law applies), non-free, and public 
domain given otherwise in this field.

Chris