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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] java port
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] java port |
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Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:52:26 +0100 |
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:05:32PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> > More important, though, is the fact that IMO the internal
> > operations of tla currently change much faster than tla's
> > external interface. Following these changes would probably much
> > more difficult and error-prone than simply relying on tla to do
> > things properly.
>
> The flip side of that is that if there ever is another arch
> implementation that stands as a peer with tla (and I hope there will
> be), then having to keep the multiple implementations in-sync will
> be a check on wild archive format (and similar) changes: it'll
> eventually help to stabilize arch. (Not that it isn't stable in its
> external and exchange formats already .... just that with two
> implementations that stability is more formal and more practically
> necessary rather than just being a nice thing the tla maintainer
> happens to do.)
FWIW, I'm reasonably likely to do this next year sometime if nothing
changes before then. I have a fair few ideas about how I'd implement
it in a completely different fashion.
(Probably wind up pulling an egcs though knowing my luck, which will
leave us right back where we started)
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] java port, Jan Hudec, 2004/06/22
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] java port, James Blackwell, 2004/06/23