Shark hg repositories are now in harmony.

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 16:43 Tue 10 Aug     , Gary Benson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Oh right.  I thought you'd tested your shark tree.

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

http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&component=Shark&component=Zero

assuming they are correctly categorised (I triaged through them a few months back but new ones may be missing).

> > > 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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