PS: Generics Branch Status

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A few thing recently have brought my attention to an issue I believe
> still exists with the generics branch; namely, what is the status
> regards the additions of 1.5 features?  I had assumed the following:
> 
> * Features requiring language features, such as generics, enums, etc. go
> on the generics branch.
> * Anything else goes on HEAD.
> 
> Yet there is still a body of code on the generics branch that goes in
> the latter category (the valueOf() functions in the primitive classes
> for instance).  Should this be merged across?  And what is the general
> view on adding modified versions of some classes (e.g. Enum), as has
> been proposed, so as to give temporary, primarily run-time support?
> 
> Also, re. Jeroen's e-mail, I'd be interested to hear from any VM
> implementers who are looking at the generics branch and what support
> they need within the class library as regards integrating new features
> such as 1.5 reflection support.
> 
> Thanks,
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One other point that occurred to me; AFAICS, there is no problem with
the generics branch possibly containing the changes to the Swing
accessibility code (limited on HEAD by gcj problems) and it may also be
a good place to start looking at bringing the concurrency stuff into the
fold.
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