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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:49:28 -0800
From: Leo Simons <mail@leosimons.com>
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Subject: [OT] what is a "mentor",
 anyway? (was: [classlib] where to put mods...)
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Hi gang,

Just some soul-searching on a sunny wednesday morning (over here
anyways)...

much of the traffic I see these days on harmony-dev (I'm through the
back-log. Yay!) to me looks like lots of people in "violent agreement"
and it prompts me to write messages like this, eg trying to help the
people doing the actual work to reach consensus. I keep wondering whether
I should actually send them (and try and fill this whole "mentor" (I
*hate* that word. It reminds me of mr. Myagi from the movie "The Karate
Kid". I identify more with the karate kid :-)) role, since this
consensus thing in an online community is probably new to some of the
harmony crew) or just let people sort it out on their own (and let
meritocracy rule).

If you have an opinion on this, please do let me know, and I might
adjust behaviour accordingly (realistically, I learn slowly, but I do
try! :-)).....its not like the incubator has any kind of "how to do
mentoring" guide, nor is harmony a whole lot like the other projects
in the incubator, so we're often just winging it.....thanks!

cheers,

LSD

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From: Leo Simons <mail@leosimons.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:36:23 -0800
Subject: Re: [classlib] where to put mods that make classlib more portable
To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org
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I detect a difference in approach between "doing things right" and
"doing the least amount of work to get things running". I think both
are good ways to make progress, and we should do both.

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:49:37AM +0800, Paulex Yang wrote:
> There has been a VM/classlib interface definition named as VMI [1] ,  it 
> is concise and a *much* smaller interface than *all* native codes 
> classlib needs. If only the alternative VM implements the VMI and kernel 
> classes, the sample Java launcher current in SVN should can be used by 
> it to load classlib native libraries as well as VM libraries, so that 
> not only java codes but all the classlib specific native codes can be 
> used on alternate VM without modification, this make sense to me as 
> *portable*.

Yeah it does! (to me)

To make my comment above a little more concrete, From a very practical point
of view, search-replacing all "native" keywords with '/* native */' is a much
lazier/quicker way to get some stuff running (I mean, making JCHEVM implement
this VMI sounds like lots of work, and it already implements another abstraction
layer (the GNU classpath one), so the best way to do it is probably not so
straight-forward), which is not without its merits either. 

Is there a good reason not to just go and try both ways?

Man, who is this guy from the peanut gallery who keeps popping his head around
the corner? O wait, its me. Carry on people, carry on...

- LSD

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