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On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Andrew John Hughes |
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<gnu_andrew@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> 2008/9/14 Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldonkin@×××××.com>: |
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>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Andrew John Hughes |
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>> <gnu_andrew@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>>> 2008/9/14 Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldonkin@×××××.com>: |
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>>>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Andrew John Hughes |
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>>>> <gnu_andrew@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>>>>> 2008/9/13 Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldonkin@×××××.com>: |
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<snip> |
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>>>>> given it doesn't yet have a complete implementation of even 1.5. |
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>>>> if sun had honoured it's agreement to allow access to the TCK by open |
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>>>> source projects, then harmony (and the free JVMs) would have had |
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>>>> certified 1.5 implementations a year ago and (most likely) 1.6 ones as |
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>>>> well by now. this is a political issue, not a code one. |
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>>> I seriously doubt that, given it took OpenJDK a year to pass the 1.6 |
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>>> TCK, despite |
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>>> being based on a codebase, the majority of which has passed as part of |
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>>> the proprietary work. |
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>> you'd be surprised :-) |
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>> at least one major corporation has taken a derived work based on |
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>> harmony codebase through the TCK |
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> Is this the TreeMap? If so, it's one class which they modified heavily |
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> themselves |
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> so that it worked as part of 1.6. |
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no: one of the major alternative TCK'd JVMs is derived from harmony code |
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>> and ask yourself if google would have based andriod on harmony unless |
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>> it worked... |
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> I didn't say it didn't work, I said it wasnt' likely to pass the TCK |
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> without a lot of work. |
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> You could of course link the Harmony class library up to HotSpot, |
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> apply for the OpenJDK6 TCK |
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> to certify that combination and prove me wrong. |
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would that i could :-) |
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sun has been saying 'not yet' to harmony certification for a number of |
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years. (just FTR it's not just harmony but any alternative FOSS JVM.) |
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- robert |