>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard
<mark(a)klomp.org> writes:
Mark> - January 23 - Test1 Development Freeze
Ok...
Mark> - 1.5 language & library support in gcj
Mark> This seems to be the biggest and most intrusive upgrade. But starting
Mark> this early seems like a very good idea. Upstream is cleaning up some
Mark> last issues. And it needs lots of testing. Would be good if something
Mark> can be cooked up for Test1. Needs help from gcc-toolchain people.
Yeah... do we know what base compiler is being used for FC7?
We'll probably have to back-port all the 1.5 stuff to that.
Kinda tough before the 23rd considering that we haven't merged it all
to GCC mainline yet :(
Mark> - Separate libgcj-rpm.
This is suspended pending the core/extras merge.
Mark> - java-gcj-compat
Mark> (Do we also need updates for javap and javah replacements?)
We don't have javap at all, do we? But we do have jcf-dump, which has
not changed during all the 1.5 work.
The new javah that is in Classpath will show up when we merge the
gcj-eclipse branch to trunk.
Mark> Maybe some work can be done to support the JDWP work in libgcj to
Mark> get a little debugging going?
Whatever is on the branch, we'll ship. I don't know what will work or
not before the release, we'll have to ask Keith.
Mark> - OpenJDK
Mark> Still lots missing. Hopefully at Fosdem we will learn a bit more about
Mark> the encumberments and when which parts of the core libraries will be
Mark> liberated fully. But it might be nice to see if javac could be
Mark> packaged.
javac builds fine against classpath (as you know). I'm not sure if
all the needed bits are in libgcj yet, but this is simple to fix if not.
Tom