On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Any suggestion on the best way to solve the problem? > > 1) Follows Mike's suggestion, which would need to change the policy, to > change the VM a bit and to find a way to deal with the conflict mentioned > above. > > 2) Make a package of core classes (may be from kaffe's Klasses.jar) and let > jikes depend on it. If this package comes from kaffe's classes, the best > thing would be to have kaffe sources build two packages. > > 3) Integrate core classes (may be from kaffe or from GNU's classpath) into > jikes. It would mean incorporating it upstream.
Alternative 2 appeals to my reasoning. #1 will play havoc with folks installing two compilers, and #3 means that the class developers and jikes developers have to be kept in synch (which is likely to be a hard problem). -S
