making j2se more portable

[Pieter Libin]

I was thinking,
I could traverse the files containing Linux and Solaris,
and make the necessary changes to use the appropriate os specific code.

Is this a good plan?

greets,

Pieter

On 5/30/07, Dmitri Trembovetski <Dmitri.Trembovetski at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
> >>> MyBioData.eu
> >
>