suspend() deprecated?

[Tim Wilkinson]

I think in retrospect that we should put suspend/restore back in - in the name of
compatibility.  However I'm loathed to put the ThreadDeath exception back because
it was truly aweful and difficult to port to native thread systems.

Cheers
Tim

Archie Cobbs wrote:

> Enno Rehling writes:
> > >While kaffe tries to be JDK 1.1.x compatible, it also tries to be
> > >as current as possible, which means being JDK 1.2 compliant where
> > >possible..
> >
> > Yes, but don't you think you might scare off a few potential customers if
> > you're not 1.1.x compatible? A lot of people - well, MOST people - write 1.1
> > applications. Otherwise you might just call Kaffe a 1.2 VM and skip the
> > reference to 1.1 altogether. Being compliant with 1.2 doesn't necessarily
> > mean not implementing deprecated methods, does it?
>
> Well, we probably all agree that adding *new* functionality from 1.2
> to kaffe is uncontroversial; it's making backward-incomptabile changes
> that is questionable. I think there's a lot more of the former than
> the latter; but in any case, you'll have to ask Tim and Transvirtual
> their opinion/strategy on this question.
>
> -Archie
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> Archie Cobbs   *   Whistle Communications, Inc.  *   http://www.whistle.com



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