Re: Jikes RVM 2.2.0 now available

[Michael Hind]

> I think we'll have these completed soon enough then.

Great.

> When complete, is there anything complicated to try this release with
Classpath using
> more of the excluded packages?

We'll have to make a few changes to the release to switch over (Julian
knows the details), but I think they are pretty simple.   We'll probably
make a new release once we switch over completely.

Mike

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Michael Hind, Manager, Dynamic Optimization Group, Jalapeño Project

IBM Watson Research Center
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/h/hind
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Jikes RVM open source release:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm


                                                                       
                      Brian Jones                                      
                      <address@hidden>            To:       Michael 
Hind/Watson/address@hidden
                      Sent by:                 cc:       address@hidden, Julian 
Dolby/Watson/address@hidden
                      address@hidden              Subject:  Re: Jikes RVM 2.2.0 
now available
                                                                       
                                                                       
                      01/05/2003 07:42                                 
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Michael Hind <address@hidden> writes:

> I thought this list might be interested in the announcement below,
> particularily the first highlight.
>
> As mentioned previously on this list, we have internally gotten Jikes RVM
> w/ Classpath to run Eclipse.   This includes all basic functionality,
> except the complete Eclipse debugger.  Also, compiling and running the
> developed Java application is limited to the library functionality of
> Classpath.
>
> As alluded to in the first bullet below, we plan to make this available
in
> the 2.2.1 release, which we hope to get out within a month.   It did
> require some bug fixes to Classpath, which Julian Dolby submitted patches
> for.   (I believe they've either all been incorporated or are close to
> being incoporated by the Classpath team.  Thanks!)

I think we'll have these completed soon enough then.  When complete,
is there anything complicated to try this release with Classpath using
more of the excluded packages?

> Highlights of this release include:
>   + Jikes RVM now mostly uses the GNU Classpath class libraries. All
> library packages except java.lang, java.lang.ref, java.lang.reflect,
> java.io, java.net,  and java.util are from Classpath. We are optimistic
> that release 2.2.1 of Jikes RVM will be based entirely on the GNU
Classpath
> libraries.

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Brian Jones <address@hidden>