Re: building gcj on OS X (also AWT)

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

John Gabriele wrote:

> What would you recommend is the best way for your average Java
> person (as opposed to a GCJ hacker) to keep their GCJ-including-
> Swing/AWT up to date?
>
> Is it advisable to pull GCJ from CVS whenever a merge from
> Classpath is done?  I like the idea of grabbing the latest GCJ
> from CVS, because I'm on dialup, and I think a "cvs co" will get
> me only the stuff that's changed from what I already have.


I'd certainly encourage everyone who's interested in the latest code to 
track the latest changes in CVS. Even if your not a Java/GCJ hacker, the 
testing and bug reports are very valuable. We can't guarantee that the 
cvs code will be 100% working at all times, but in reality its usually 
pretty stable and we try to fix problems quickly if they occur. Most of 
the more invasive development work is happening in branches right now.

As far as code being merged into libgcj from classpath (and vice-versa) 
goes, this generally happens continuously whenever the developers have 
time. Most of these merges are trivial, but there are some areas where 
we deliberately deviate from the classpath code (for efficiency, CNI, etc).

Regards

Bryce