середу, 25 березня 2009 р.

It's my project coin proposal for enhanced string literals in Java . (Just to keep record about closed project).

On reject of this proposal we can see difference between corporate and true open source: I. e. near any open-source changed adopt such extensions or, in case of differences in points of view: clear state why this is not acceptable (and propose way to integrate similar or alternative ideas in future).

In case of corporate OSS, we does not see, not adoption, not clear statement about using alternative way. It's why bazaar such effective, and trying to simulate open-source without
bazaar actually does not give us bazaar-like speed of development. (More pity - such simulation
also generate frustration of potential contributors: If I donate my time, I expect that my effor will be or used in some additive way, or rejected on early stage [before any serious time investement], but not thrown out without any result) It's why language stagnating last few years.

About need in enhanced strings: look at references section. I. e. we have
- 3 proposals, raised independently (I discovered this after issuing own proposal)
- 2 'hacks' for implementations

вівторок, 17 березня 2009 р.

OpenJDK build

It's hove one differ from documentation:

Problem #0

forest extension to mercurial
Actually exists two forks
a) http://bitbucket.org/pmezard/hgforest-crew
(work with python-2.4, does not work with python-2.5)
b) http://hg.akoha.org/hgforest
(work with python-2.5, does not work with python-2.4)

Yet one pity news - default htwebdir.cgi does not support forest.


Problem #1:

1. builds breaks, as described in

http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=234284

(quick and dirty workaround was copy rt.jar from JDK-1.6 to /jre/lib/rt-closed.jar)

Still compiles.

вівторок, 10 березня 2009 р.

Sun OpenJDK mercurial is down ?

Trying to clone openjdk repository to my local copy:

hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/t1 t1
abort: requirement '<body bgcolor="#f0f0f8"><font color="#f0f0f8" size="-5"> -->' not supported!

Yet one problem - openjdk web pages does not list any contacts, where I can fire about not working repository.

UPD: and the problem was on my side: root directory to jdk7 forest is not t1 (t-'one'), but tl. ('t-l')