Re: SV: Adding another configuration feature to libjava forarm-elfmetal configurations

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Anthony Green writes:
 > On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 10:11, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Maybe a better idea than a fork would be some scripts that walk over
 > > the sources making modifications.  We would then have some sort of
 > > stylized comments that indicate where the exclusions are made.  It
 > > would then be a drudge job to go over the sources adding the marks.
 > 
 > Keep in mind that it's more than just removing things.  Sometimes the
 > method APIs look the same, but the behaviour is different - so the
 > annotations would have to be relatively expressive. 

Oh, indeed.  Easy enough to do, though.

 > Although at that
 > point, why not just maintain a bunch of patch files

Very cumbersome, and the maintenance programmer can't easily see
what's going on.  Bad, bad idea.

 > that are applied to
 > the sources to generate j2me profile configurations?  We're basically
 > talking about a fork now.

We are, so let's not go down that road.

Andrew.