[kaffe] Release Candidate 1 this weekend

Timothy Stack stack at cs.utah.edu
Thu May 23 09:16:25 PDT 2002


> Hi,
> 
> Sorry, I haven't gotten Release Candidate 1 (RC1) out yet.  I just wanted to
> do a few things first:
> 
>  1) Clear out my backlog of patches and emails out of my inbox
>  2) Try compiling it on a few more platforms (Linux works, I just installed
> NetBSD, I'm going to try it on my iBook (Mac OS X/Darwin), and I'll take a
> stab at cygwin/mingw32)
>  3) Fix the libtool issue
>  4) Look at whether or not kjc should be updated
>  5) Incorporate rebuilding of the class libraries into the build procedure
> (the PocketLinux kaffe does this, using a cut-down "Klasses.jar.default"
> bootstrap library).  If we can get rid of having to check in a binary
> Klasses.jar into CVS each time it gets updated, that would be really nice,
> since the Klasses.jar,v file in the CVS repository is currently 107MB!,
> which explains why it's so slow to check stuff out.
> 6) Do the "Ports" and "Credits" pages on the website

So, uh, how is this stuff going?

> Hopefully, with a little help, I can get RC1 done this weekend.

No need to rush this, how about setting a date a little further out, like
july or the start of august.

> Cheers,
> 
>  - Jim

tim stack




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