CACAO & IcedTea7

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 22:34 Sun 16 Oct     , David Flamme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on this issue. Takes a lot longer than I thought, but I'm 
> able to build it already. I "only" have to fix some changes for openjdk7 
> and then I'll send a patch for further discussion. I'm kinda new to 
> this, so I better take it slow on the "distributing changes" side.
> 

Ok.  Then I think we should disable it for 2.0 and get your patch in for
a 2.1 release.  We can then consider backporting it to 2.0.1.

> On the invokedynamic topic, I'd say, it shouldn't be expected from 
> cacao. Would be a really big project and at the moment I don't see 
> anyone who would be able to do this. So on the long run, I'll only try 
> to get a stable cacao/icedtea7 on the level of 6.
> 
> Maybe I messed up the mailing list order and so this line is meant to 
> apologize.
> 
> cheers
>     David Flamme
> > Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:58:51 +0200
> > From: Stefan Ring<stefanrin at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: CACAO&  IcedTea7
> > To: distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net, ahughes at redhat.com
> > Message-ID:
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> >
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes
> > <ahughes at redhat.com>  wrote:
> >>  From testing, CACAO on IcedTea7 seems to be heavily broken. ?I've backported
> >> some patches from 6 so they are at least on the same revision, but the lack
> >> of HPI in 7 causes CACAO to fail.
> >>
> >> Is anyone working on this? ?I think we may need to disable --enable-cacao in
> >> IcedTea7 2.0.
> > Tracked (but without any specifics):
> > http://server.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154
> >
> > I've been planning to look into this for months. At the moment I'm
> > trying to make icedtea6 work on armv7/oneiric (Xerces knows about
> > this), so it will still be a while.
> >
> > The big question is what to do about Java 7 anyway, as there will be
> > no invokedynamic support in CACAO in the foreseeable future. Not that
> > I would object to someone working on this, but I doubt that someone
> > with enough motivation will show up. I myself will very likely not
> > have enough time for this for a long time.
> >
> >
> > End of distro-pkg-dev Digest, Vol 53, Issue 32
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> 

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