Re: Importing sources (?)

[Paul Siegmann <pauls at euronet dot nl>]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 
> > Assuming licensing problems can be worked out, and assuming that
> > we can get the blessing of the package developers, do you think
> > it would be worthwhile to import packages like this into libgcj?
> 
> Yes I think this is a great idea.

me too

> implementations. Paul has written a Perl script to generate the
> different versions from one master source file. I didn't know

Remark: the perl script has for several versions now been replaced by a java
class.
This java class is included with the distribution.
It implements a kind of cpp-light, and enables source code like this:

#ifdef SERVLET_VERSION_2_0
/**
 * A really cool function
 */
 public void foo() {}
#endif

> how to do this with the auto* tools that libgcj/classpath uses.

The problem with the real cpp are the @deprecated tags in comments.
That's why we switched to our own class

> When it has been imported into Classpath I (and I assume Paul)
> can take care of maintenance.

agreed.

regards,
			Paul Siegmann