Re: RFC: Merge java.net.URL

[Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>]

Gary Benson wrote:
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> > >>>>> "Gary" == Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > Gary> Yeah, I saw some of that.  From the comment it looked as
> > Gary> though it might have had something to do with statically
> > Gary> linked executables, but the attached test program shows
> > Gary> handlers for both file and core have been created by the
> > Gary> time main() is called, so...
> > 
> > Yeah, there's a reference to file in MainThread:
> > 
> >   static final Class Kfile = gnu.java.net.protocol.file.Handler.class;
> > 
> > Presumably core is brought in statically already, I didn't look.
> > Anyway this probably means that the old URL hack is no longer
> > needed.  It is hard to be certain.
> 
> I've a feeling the only way we'll find out if it is still needed is
> to commit and see if anyone complains ;)

...which I just did.

Cheers.
Gary

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