What's the status?

[Andrew Bachmann]

Hi William,

Last time we tried it Jikes was fine for compiling the code.  Jikes doesn't
support the generics of java 5 though. (unless something changed recently)
So, we may have to un-generic some of the code if we use Jikes.  I'm not
sure if Jikes is intended to be maintained at this point or not.  You might
find it interesting to add some java 5 support to Jikes.  I know that it
would be a benefit to our project.  With an external javac and the openjdk
jvm, we can bootstrap the openjdk javac which is written in java.

Andrew

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:25 PM, William Tracy <afishionado at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, I obviously have no idea what was going on in the pre-Haiku BeOS
> days. :-P
>
> Question: Is Jikes not up to the task of compiling the Java code in the
> JDK?
>
>
> --
> William Tracy
> afishionado at gmail.com -- wtracy at calpoly.edu
>
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> unsecured networks named 'linksys'."
>  -- Randall Munroe
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