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Re: Any problem with stealing Classpath?
- To: Matt Welsh <mdw AT cs.berkeley dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Any problem with stealing Classpath?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey AT cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:38:00 -0700
- Cc: java-discuss AT sourceware.cygnus dot com
- References: <199909151842.LAA27254@mnemosyne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
Matt> More to the point, are there any plans to bring Classpath and
Matt> libgcj together at some point? I assume that these two are
Matt> wholly separate implementations of the Java libraries. Is there
Matt> anything being done to merge the two?
Nobody is working on merging them.
There are two basic problems:
1. Classpath and libgcj have different goals (as I see it). Classpath
wants an implementation-independent class library. libgcj doesn't
care about implementation dependency -- we want native methods written
using CNI for speed.
2. The whole copyright/licensing issue, which has been discussed many
times.
Tom