Re: Browseable CVS

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:50:08PM +0100, Eric Blake wrote:
> First, my question.  I am wondering if there is an online browseable version
> of CVS, as I am currently behind a firewall and cannot access CVS directly.
> Also, are there more frequent snapshots than the beta releases?
You can access the CVS Web through Savannah
<http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpath>
I don't think there are more current snapshots, but if you want I can
tar up a recent CVS checkout and upload it somewhere for you,

> By way of information, I'm one of the core Jikes developers, and just signed
> on to the Classpath mailing list to track what you are doing.  Jikes is an
> open source Java language compiler, but is under IBM's open source license
> rather than the GPL, and is included in most major Linux/GNU distros.
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jikes (For that
> matter, you may already be using jikes to compile Classpath).
Yes, you can compile classpath with configure --with-jikes.

> At the moment, the Jikes project does not distribute a classpath with the
> compiler, but assumes that users already have one; perhaps in the future
> Jikes will recommend the Classpath project as a good open source alternative
> to Sun.  In turn, you may wish to add a link to Jikes from the Classpath web
> pages, such as under recommended programming tools (although I will
> understand if you don't, since Jikes is not GNU or GPL).
Free software that works with GNU Classpath can be linked on our
homepage. And jikes is (an important) piece of free software.
So if you recommend us, we will recommend you :)

> Has anyone started work on adding java.lang.AssertionError?  I have just
> submitted a patch to Jikes to support the assert statement, added in JDK
> 1.4, but do not yet have a free classpath to test it against.  I see the use
> of the new assert statement as being useful in the Classpath project.
I believe nobody is working on it. I don't know how much work is needed on
the JVM side to support it. There are no free JVMs yet that support it at
the moment.

Classpath does not yet have complete 1.2 Classloader support, but we are
almost there.

Cheers,

Mark
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