SV: Adding another configuration feature to libjava for arm-elfmetal configurations
Andrew Haley
aph@redhat.com
Thu May 1 20:32:00 GMT 2003
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.
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