On Tuesday 28 September 1999, at 22 h 5, the keyboard of Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A full Java implementation implements not just the language specification > but also the Java virtual machine specification and the supposed API > specification. Right. For instance, kaffe, which is "just" a virtual machine, not a "full Java implementation", implements the Java virtual machine specification. > (Of course, Sun's Java API documentation, besides being quite incomplete > even just for users (programmers), is nowhere near being a real > specification. Come to think of it, even the Java Language Specification > sucks as a specification. Precisely my point. That's why, a few months ago when this issue was first discussed, I disliked the idea of versioned virtual packages (java-virtual-machine-1.1, etc). > Anyway, I think we're going to have to refer to JDK version numbers > to identify levels of Java support. May be the JDK version numbers are under the SCSL? :-) More seriously, I do not like this idea. This would mean we don't use the Specification, but a specific implementation, worse, a non-free one.
