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RE: FileDescriptor proposal
- From: "Jeroen Frijters" <jeroen at sumatra dot nl>
- To: "Anthony Green" <green at redhat dot com>,<java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: <classpath at gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:02:45 +0200
- Subject: RE: FileDescriptor proposal
Anthony Green wrote:
[...]
> The upside of this change is that Classpath/libgcj will be
> able to support a wider variety of systems. The only
> alternative for some of these systems right now is to provide
> their own version of FileDescriptor and related classes
> instead of using Classpath/libgcj's (IKVM and jx are two
> systems I know of that do this today).
I don't really see the downside to providing my own version of
FileDescriptor. Since its public API is so very tiny (and unlikely to
change), I don't think the complexity of your proposal is compensated by
the advantage of using the standard Classpath FileDescriptor.
Regards,
Jeroen
(author of http://IKVM.NET)