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Subject: RE: Compatibility or non-bug question
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:20:46 +0300
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From: "Zakharov, Vasily M" <vasily.m.zakharov@intel.com>
To: <dev@harmony.apache.org>


Well, that's better than nothing. :)

In fact, those two bugs I've mentioned are the ones I'm most interested
in right now:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-1024
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-2525

What to you think we should do to them?

Thank you.

 Vasily


-----Original Message-----
From: Alexey Petrenko [mailto:alexey.a.petrenko@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 7:48 AM
To: dev@harmony.apache.org
Subject: Re: Compatibility or non-bug question

We have a compatibility guideline [1].
And according this guideline we should discuss cases like yours one by
one.

SY, Alexey

[1] http://harmony.apache.org/subcomponents/classlibrary/compat.html

2006/12/16, Zakharov, Vasily M <vasily.m.zakharov@intel.com>:
> Hi, all,
>
> I'm now trying to investigate and fix some trivial bugs, but I'm not
> sure which way to fix them to.
>
> There're multiple situations where RI, say, doesn't throw exception
and
> Harmony does throw, and throwing an exception in that situation looks
> good and logical.
>
> In other words, the question is, what is a compatibility bug (that
needs
> to be fixed to match RI) and what is a non-bug difference.
>
> Also, there's a question on non-bug differences. They're not bugs, but
> what should we do to them? Just close them, if Harmony behaviour seems
> more correct than RI's? Or fix them to match RI though they're not
bugs,
> to make sure we don't break existing applications?
>
> Here are two characteristic examples of uncertainties that occur
rather
> frequently:
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-1024
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-2525
>
> Do we have some, say, policy, or guideline on how issues like these
> could (or should) be resolved?
>
> There're many issues like these, and having a general approach would
> ease dealing with them...
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Vasily Zakharov
> Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division
>