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



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