Re: New classes from Classpath

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>]

Tom Tromey wrote:

>>>>>>"Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
>>>>>>
>
>Mark> The following patch adds the following four new classes from
>Mark> Classpath: java.lang.CharSequence,
>Mark> java.lang.InheritableThreadLocal, java.net.Authenticator and
>Mark> java.net.PasswordAuthentication.
>
>I saw the patch separately, thanks.
>
>One question for all libgcj hackers: how far into JDK 1.4 do we want
>to go?  We already have a little piece (IdentityHashMap, since it was
>useful for JNI).  Do we want CharSequence?  Some Classpath hackers
>seem to be working on 1.4 compatibility even though it hasn't been
>released yet.
>

We definatly shouldn't hold back from implementing 1.4 stuff. There are 
some nice new APIs that will fit in nicely with GCJ, particularly 
java.nio. The only danger is that the specifications may change a bit 
between the current beta and the release, but I don't think this is a 
big problem since Sun are usually pretty good about keeping track of 
exactly what has changed between releases.

regards

Bryce.