Serialisation bug with abstract classes

[Michael Koch]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:43:36PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >I'm in teh middle of including some patches for serialization. Its
> >currently know to be broken. In some days it will work again.
> 
> Was it broken before you started including your patches? If not, why 
> didn't you either commit the whole change when it's ready, or do the 
> work in a branch, and then merge it in one go, to avoid this brokenness?
> 
> Don't get it wrong, I'm very thankful for your work. I'm just concerned 
> about the quality of CVS HEAD. People might need to get gcj from CVS 
> because it has an unreleased fix they need badly. If they get news bugs 
> because of half-merged changes, it's going to cost the time and lessen 
> their confidence in gcj in general.

It was broken before too, otherwise I would have never thought tp dp
some work on it. The reason to this not at once is to understand the
code more that gets changed and why. Well its CVS HEAD. ITs known to
cause problems. Nobody really expects it to work 100% always. Its for
development.


Michael