I'll create a suncompat component and see where we go from there...
Tim
Alex Blewitt wrote:
> On 10/08/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <geir@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Anthony Green wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:58 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
>> >> Yes- the idea is to provide that "suncompat.jar" for that reason with
>> >> those clases in the sun.* namespace that user apps depend on.
>> >
>> > This way lies madness. I urge you to take a strong stand against bad
>> > applications.
>>
>> Oh, don't get me wrong - we really want to. But we want adoption of the
>> harmony codebase as well. We think that we have a reasonable balance -
>> provide the functionality in an separable, modular way at first to make
>> it easy for people to try and adopt harmony.
>
> May I suggest that we try and:
>
> 1) Make available a suncompat.jar, which re-writes calls to o.a.h or
> similar (or subclasses them ...)
> 2) Explicitly don't make it part of the default classpath ala
> 'tools.jar' in the standard Sun implementation when running HarmonyVM
> code
> 3) Put up a FAQ saying that 'If you depend on e.g. sun.*, stick the
> suncompat in the classpath'
>
> That way, out-of-the-box we don't have it, but there's an easy fix for
> people who trip up over it. However, if people just need to get it
> running, then they have a trivial workaround that doesn't involve
> changing their code.
>
> The same could also be provided for code that depends on sun.JavaC or
> whatever ...
>
> Alex.
>
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