Re: Announcing Jikes RVM 3.0 + Apache Harmony!

[Mark Hindess <ma...@googlemail.com>]

In message <4b...@mail.gmail.com>,
"Aleksey Shipilev" writes:
>
> Hi,
> 
> In order to make the integration easier, can we pull in the minor
> patch [1] into the Harmony trunk? That would enable JikesRVM to use
> prebuilt Harmony snapshots.
> 
> [1] [classlib][archive] Add zipCachePool_new to exports
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5939

It would be much, much better if we fixed things to use the zip cache
pool api - classlib built with -Dhy.zip.api=true - rather than fixing
it to use the current obsolete/unclean API.

-Mark.


> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Sean Qiu <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have not finished this announcement but can't help to try.
> > It sounds great. Thank you all.
> >
> > ASFAIK,  contribute APL-licensed code to JikesRVM is all right,
> > but i think there are some concerns when fetching code from JikesRVM.
> > Correct me if i was wrong!
> >
> > Maybe we can create a page for the JikesRVM building and testing later.
> >
> >
> > 2008/8/8 Aleksey Shipilev <al...@gmail.com>:
> >> Thanks to Ian support, these issues are resolved (actually was my fault).
> >>
> >> "Say Hello!" :)
> >>
> >> shade@pegasus ~/trunks/jikesrvm/dist/production_harmony_ia32-linux $ ./rvm
>  Hello
> >> Hello, world!
> >>
> >> shade@pegasus ~/trunks/jikesrvm/dist/production_harmony_ia32-linux $
> >> ./rvm -fullversion
> >> production Jikes RVM 3.0.0+svn (r14848M)
> >>        host config:
> >> /home/shade/trunks/jikesrvm/build/configs/production.properties
> >>        target config:
> >> /home/shade/trunks/jikesrvm/build/targets/ia32-linux.properties
> >>        heap default initial size: 50 MiBytes
> >>        heap default maximum size: 100 MiBytes
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Aleksey.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Aleksey Shipilev
> >> <al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Ian Rogers <ro...@gmail.com> wrot
> e:
> >>>> Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> >>>>> Time to get Jikes RVM 3.0! I would report back on my progress.
> >>> Well, I had stuck with the issue while building on Linux. See RVM-616
> >>> [1] for details. I'm looking into it now.
> >>>
> >>>>> A couple of starter questions though:
> >>>>>  1. Can I point Jikes RVM build system the location of my own Harmony
> >>>>> classlib trunk?
> >>>> I'm afraid I haven't written the build to do this but it would be a grea
> t
> >>>> extension, please open JIRA issues.
> >>> I had filed RVM-615 [2] with little fix that enables copying of
> >>> Harmony classlib from local folder.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Aleksey.
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/RVM-616
> >>> [2] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/RVM-615
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards
> > Sean, Xiao Xia Qiu
> >
> > China Software Development Lab, IBM
> >
>