Re: [cp-patches] Updated: crypto merge patch

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 17:02, Stuart Ballard wrote:
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > The reason I don't want to do this with Tritonus is because we don't
> > have a very good track record of following upstream sources.  We
> > currently only have GNU JAXP as external library shipped with GNU
> > Classpath, and we are horribly out of date (libgcj is even more out of
> > date), so I am actually thinking of dropping it and point people to the
> > official GNU JAXP upstream sources.
> 
> If JAXP, Tritonus etc can be used out of the box with Classpath, would 
> it be possible to make the Classpath build process simply grab the 
> latest released version from their respective CVS repositories, or 
> something?

We should really make a general extension classloader that works out of
the box with GNU Classpath based compilers and runtimes so you can just
drop new the latest releases of those projects in that directory and
have them used automatically.

Any volunteers?
gcj actually has support for that now. But it is very gcj specific:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2004-q2/msg00700.html

Cheers,

Mark

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