Re: Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-13 Thread Thomas Aeby
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 20:33, Momchil Velikov wrote: > Bullshit, sorry. Thanks for your politeness. I don't think that anything coming after such a sentence is worth discussing. Best regards, Tom Thomas Aeby, Kirchweg

Re: Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-13 Thread Momchil Velikov
> "Thomas" == Thomas Aeby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 18:44, Mark Howard wrote: >> The big question is: should we switch to CNI? Thomas> Actually you already know the answer. Will you rename the Thomas> "java-gnome" project to "gcj-gnome"? If not,

Re: Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-13 Thread Thomas Aeby
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 18:44, Mark Howard wrote: > The big question is: should we switch to CNI? Actually you already know the answer. Will you rename the "java-gnome" project to "gcj-gnome"? If not, stay with JNI, if yes, do this step with all consequences - you are talking about a library, then,

Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-13 Thread Thomas Aeby
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 03:07, Tom Tromey wrote: [just jumping in] > The primary thing is freedom. > Based on what you say, it sounds like we have different priorities > here. This is one of the core questions: Is some library that will only work with one single Java-lookalike-but-GPL'd runtime envi

Re: [Sablevm-developer] [Java-gnome-developer] Re: Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-13 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Per Bothner wrote: ... then a pre-processor can generate the JNI or CNI headers. ... My main worry is that the programmers using these macros might not take the good approach to JNI programming (which consists of "caching" method and field ID's) if some macro hides method/field accesses. Also, fro

Re: [Sablevm-developer] Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-Gnome: jni or cni

2004-03-13 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Momchil Velikov wrote: How about asking Sun to support CNI then ? Because it's they who limit your "freedoom of choice", by supporting only one (the technically inferior, AIUI) interface. Who says that JNI is technically inferior than CNI technically? As a JVM specialist, I can say that it is no