Shark hg repositories are now in harmony.

[Gary Benson]

Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 11:12 Tue 10 Aug     , Gary Benson wrote:
> > Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > > On 09:55 Tue 10 Aug     , Gary Benson wrote:
> > > > Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > > > > My experiences of Shark suggest that production use is still
> > > > > very premature.
> > > > 
> > > > Really?  What problems are you seeing?
> > > 
> > > http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=348
> > > http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=371
> > > 
> > > These are from the last time I tried it; it wouldn't even build
> > > which, given it was regarded as alpha quality, doesn't seem all
> > > that surprising.
> > 
> > Ah, that was over a year ago, before all the TCK stabilization
> > work.  348 is a HotSpot version mismatch, I've seen it since in
> > icedtea6.  And 371, well, the TCK work was on x86_64, so that
> > platform at least should not segfault.
> 
> Feel free to close them if they've been fixed.  I didn't think the
> TCK work was done on IcedTea6 or 7, but on some random snapshot
> from your own repository.

It was on a random snapshot of icedtea6, so that at least should be
ok.

Is there some way of seeing all Zero/Shark bugs in bugzilla?

> > Though does anybody use ppc (in the open source world) any more?
> 
> Debian and Gentoo still have active ports.  Ubuntu also seems to
> have one as far as I can see, and probably other distributions too.
> Fedora is the only one I've heard of dropping it, but then they
> never really supported many architectures to begin with.  It's a
> shame because the F11 DVD was useful recently to get my ppc box
> booting again.
> 
> The reason I ask is because ppc is the architecture where I could
> see Shark being useful personally (currently using CACAO).  I don't
> really see the point in using it on x86_64 other than for
> development.

Quite.

Cheers,
Gary

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