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Re: java.lang.Character
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- To: Eric Blake <ebb9 at email dot byu dot edu>
- Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:14:41 +1300
- Subject: Re: java.lang.Character
- References: <3C728CC6.558E8044@email.byu.edu>
Eric Blake wrote:
>I'm trying to merge java.lang.Character with Classpath. Classpath uses
>two scripts to generate the Unicode database used by Character, but
>stores them in the odd location classpath/doc/unicode/*.pl because the
>UnicodeData-3.0.0.txt file lives there. Should I create that directory
>in libjava, or should I place the scripts in the libjava/scripts/
>directory?
>
libjava/scripts would be best. Having in them in classpath/scripts would
seem to make more sense for the classpath distribution too.
>And should I add the
>UnicodeData-3.0.0.txt and supporting files to the gcj distribution? If
>so, what directory would be the best location for them?
>
Either in gnu/gcj/convert, or perhaps just in scripts.
>I'm no automake wizard, but is it worth trying to add some sort of rule
>to automatically regenerate gnu/java/lang/CharData.java? I figure that
>it is done infrequently enough (mainly, whenver the JDK moves to a new
>version of the Unicode standard) that leaving it as a manual operation
>won't hurt.
>
I think that making it manual is fine, as long as we put a comment in
the generated file explaining how to do it!
regards
Bryce.