[kaffe] Re: 1.1.0 wishlist

Timothy Stack stack@cs.utah.edu
Thu May 15 13:16:01 2003


> One idea I've got for the "make dist" target would be to generate the
> rt.jar during the make dist phase, and use that for non-CVS compiles.  I
> don't know how much work that is though -- it wouldn't be the end of the
> world if we don't distribute a rt.jar.

I think I did this for the JanosVM, although the makefile mojo probably 
needs a little tweaking.

> The other thing I'm really interested in seeing is getting the website
> moved over to Tomcat, running on Kaffe, of course.

Uh, okay... :)  It would certainly create a lot of pressure to make it 
stable...

> I have been working on some webapps though that I'd like to put up
> there.  One of the first things I want to do is put in searchable web
> archives, and a code browser thing I've been working on (which needs
> JSTL, and Tomcat 4).  In the longer term I'd like to hook in a bug
> tracker and some automated reports -- eg. benchmarks, regression testing
> (ours and Mauve), and maybe even set up a Jakarta Gump system.  I also
> want to resurrect my failed attempt at doing the Kaffe Weekly News -
> I've got some ideas on how to largely automate it.

Cool!

> Cheers,
> 
>  - Jim

tim