RE: J2ME classes in GNU classpath

[Andrew Haley]

Anthony Green writes:
 > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:01 +0100, Rupert K. wrote:
 > > Hi there
 > > My name is rupert. I am the one who will implement
 > > this j2me stuff as my
 > > master thesis. 
 > > The goal of the project will be to implement the cldc
 > > 1.1/midp 2.0
 > > specification and make it runnable under the CacaoVM. 
 > > In the first step it will run under an pc-environment.
 > > Later on we will
 > > port it to an mobile device
 > > The new API should be similar to the existing
 > > classpath and/or using
 > > parts of it. 
 > 
 > My favorite idea for turning GNU Classpath into a J2ME-like library
 > would be to maintain a set of patches for converting the existing
 > sources into the J2ME-like variant.
 > 
 > I think the core classes aren't changing much anymore, so this isn't
 > likely to be a huge maintenance job.  Maintaining the work as patches
 > means it's also easy to see when something in the core classes has
 > changed, forcing us to modify the patches.
 > 
 > Ideally these patches would be checked into the GNU Classpath tree and a
 > simple configure option would allow us to generate and build these
 > alternative classes.
 > 
 > A long time ago I used to think that preprocessing would be the best way
 > to do all this, but the difference between J2SE- and J2ME-like classes
 > are too large.

I wonder if we can use svn to help us with this.  A bunch of svn
changesets might be more useful and less messy than patches.  And you
can easily make a patch from a bunch of svn changesets.

Andrew.