Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
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> Archie Cobbs wrote:
>> Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
>>> So to that end, I'd like to set things up so that by default, we use
>>> the eclipse compiler, but that means that people have to go through a
>>> [painful] process to get the jars (2 of them) - namely if you don't
>>> have Eclipse installed, you have to go get it and dig two jars out.
>>>
>>> I'd like to set things up so we don't have to put in ant/lib to make
>>> it less intrusive to people - we could have a local lib dir and do
>>> that maybe.
>>>
>>> Anyway, anyone have strong feelings or suggestions?
>>
>> I haven't been paying close attention so this may be a dumb question...
>> what about using jikes? Jikes is nice for Java VM projects where you
>> have a bootstrap problem associated with Java compilers themselves
>> written in Java.
>
> Well, we have* our own VM, right?
>
>
> * have => ok, in the future...
>
I assume that Archie meant the Jikes compiler, right?
Not sure whether that is under active development. The last release I
can see in their archive is 2004-10-03.
Regards,
Tim
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Tim Ellison (t.p.ellison@gmail.com)
IBM Java technology centre, UK.
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