making j2se more portable

[Dmitri Trembovetski]

David Herron wrote:
> 
> And if we're going to rename things, can we make it not be "j2se" ?? ;-)

   Yes, we've got to have "tm" somewhere! =)

> 
> Dmitri Trembovetski wrote:
>>
>>   Yes, this had been discussed before, and the
>>   consensus was that it needs to be renamed.
>>
>>   There was just too much going on to do the rename before
>>   the open sourcing, but I think it was planned for shortly
>>   afterwards (may be before the transition to Mercurial?).
>>
>>   Thanks,
>>     Dmitri
>>
>>
>> Pieter Libin wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I was looking at the j2se part of the openjdk project,
>>> and it looks like there is no specific port section for gnu-linux,
>>> only for solaris and windows.
>>> This works fine, since there are not so many differences between
>>> gnu-linux and solaris.
>>> However, I think renaming the solaris directory into unix would make a
>>> lot of sense.
>>> In this source code we could than refer to os-specific parts,
>>> fe os::linux::thread ...
>>>
>>> These efforts will make it much easier to port j2se to other unix 
>>> systems.
>>>
>>> Does anyone agrees with this?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Pieter Libin
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