[kaffe] Planning for 1.1.2 release

Arnaud Vandyck arnaud.vandyck at ulg.ac.be
Sun Oct 5 08:47:01 PDT 2003


On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:06:48 +0200
Dalibor Topic <robilad at kaffe.org> wrote:

> Jim Pick wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Here's what I'm planning for the next release...
> > 
> > Sunday, September 28 - Feature Freeze for 1.1.2
> > Sunday, October 5 - Release 1.1.2

Is it release time?

> > I'm really going to try to get some DocBook and Javadocs into this
> > release.  Does anybody else have some goals for this release?
> 
> a) Getting gjdoc in. (arnaud, me)

Don't think it will be possible before 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 :'(

For the rest, what is done? What has to be done?

> b) fixing most of the broken platforms to build again with latest gcc 
> (gcc 3.3.1) ( 1.1.2 was somewhat borked there ;)
> c) merging in java.beans from Classpath (needed to run jboss on kaffe)
> d) adding more docs on what third party components are used in kaffe,
> where they came from, what the licenses are etc in THIRDPARTY
> e) a THIRDPARTY-CHANGES file documenting the changed files with respect
> to Classpath, for example
> f) syncing back to classpath, i.e. getting the great work done by Ito,
> Helmer and Guilhem into GNU Classpath
> g) merging in java.util.jar from GNU Classpath
> h) fixing the outstanding bugs (collection stuff seems to be the most
> serious)
> i) merging the outstanding patches in (long mail from michael, rmi
> patches, jboss patches from classpath)
> j) fixing the libtool-vs-static-vm problem pointed out by Kiyo and Andrea
> k) fixing the libtool-vs-cross-compilation problem pointed out by sebastian
> l) merging in the NIO improvements by Michael Koch (guilhem)
> m) fixing the long standing broken strtod replacement issue for Linux 2.0
> n) fixing hp-ux (helmer, riccardo, me)

Cheers,

-- Arnaud Vandyck, STE fi, ULg
   Formateur Cellule Programmation.




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