On 13:28 Tue 08 Feb , Mark Wielaard wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 22:01 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 15:24 +0100, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > > > I guess I could keep it on my Github mirror until I have something > > > > concrete enough to be merged to trunk. > > > > > > > I'd prefer to have it in HEAD as long as it's clearly marked as stubs > > > (the NotImplementedException I mentioned) and there is work actively > > > taking place. > > > Then there's always the (slim) possibility someone else can work on it :-) > > > > That was my original thinking as well. Does the included patch look > > better to you? Mark, what do you think about this? > > I admit to still just not like stubs, however they are setup. > If creating branches wasn't such a pain with CVS I would really > recommend doing all this on a branch and only merge when ready and it > can actually be used with some VM. I guess it is just time to bite the > bullet and create some time to move to mercurial and setup some rules > about how to create working branches. I won't veto getting this in right > now if that is really what you and Andrew want, but I am not > particularly excited either. > I assume by Mercurial 'branching', you mean what we do with IcedTea6 HEAD and the releases at present, not the in-tree support? Because that's worse than CVS IME. > > This patch implements the work-in-progress invokedynamic API stubs described > > here: > > > > http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/dyn/package-summary.html > > > > The classes don't do anything useful yet and don't even contain all the > > specified methods. > > Might be better to find some other reference to point people at. This > screams it isn't finished yet, might move. I don't have a good > suggestion though. The java doc in OpenJDK is distributed under the GPL > though, but doesn't seem to be online yet. > Is there anything stopping us having the docs generated by IcedTea online? Maybe the builder could produce them? > Cheers, > > Mark > > > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37
