Re: Eclipse

[Michael Koch]

Am Montag, 25. Oktober 2004 13:47 schrieb Dalibor Topic:
> Michael Koch wrote:
> > Am Montag, 25. Oktober 2004 12:15 schrieb Arnaud Vandyck:
> >>Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:59:54 +0200,
> >>
> >>Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>For 0.12 I want to at least move GNU JAXP in again in the
> >>>external directory. Maybe it can become a regular part of GNU
> >>>Classpath, we would need to discuss that with Chris and Arnaud.
> >>
> >>'Merging' gnujaxp in classpath make sense to me. Maybe you can
> >> add a --without-xml parameter to the configure script for small
> >> devices or for easy customization. jaxp is a part of java since
> >> 1.4.
> >
> > Doing this isn't trivial as java.beans will depend on it and
> > javax.imageio on some parts of GNU jaxp too.
> >
> > I think we have to implement something like profiles in the near
> > future to handle small devices and such.
>
> I think that GNU Classpath should support the latest APIs in
> general, which are 1.4/1.5 atm. As JAXP is part of it, it should be
> easily integratable into GNU Classpath's class library, in my
> opinion. It doesn't need to be merged in directly, simply
> supporting & requiring it in the build process would be enough, I
> think. It's just another dependency like gtk is for working
> AWT/Swing support. Given that classes outside JAXP (beans, imageio)
> depend on it, I'd be for making GNU JAXP (or another JAXP
> implementation, if necessary) a hard requirement.

Sorry but having such a hard requirement is nonsense. Then its best to 
maintain it inside GNU classpath. Then people will only need to get 
GNU classpath if they wanna build it. Note that GTK stuff is 
optionaly and cannot compared with jaxp.


Michael
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