Re: dynamic-portable-native-sync-1.patch

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 02:20, Steven Augart wrote:
> OK to commit?

This looks fine to me. Thanks for making this a runtime configuration
option! Can you add a one-line blurb to the NEWS file about this (with a
see the vmintegration guide) when you commit.

> 2004-06-19  Steven Augart  <address@hidden>
> 
>         * gnu/java/awtk/peer/gtk/GtkMainThread.java (run): Pass the value of 
>         the gnu.classpath.awt.gtk.portable.native.sync system property to C.

s/awtk/awt/ typo.

> address@hidden: this is written in anticipation of 1.2 support and does not
> address@hidden: this is written in anticipation of Java 1.2 support and does 
> not

Note that in our documentation and manuals we try to avoid suggesting
that GNU Classpath is Java. It is not. Although we do hope that it is as
compatible with it as possible (so people can migrate to a free
implementation when they want). Since there is a trademark on certain
uses of the word Java we normally don't call anything Java. In the above
you would say "1.2 library support" and instead of Java runtime we just
use "runtime", or if it is explicitly for the particular byte code
instructions often associated with the java programming language
"interpreter for java byte codes". This is also more correct since with
e.g. gcj or ikvm.net the execution model is completely different from
the traditional byte code interpreter or just in time compiler.

Sorry for nitpicking about this. But if we can avoid any legal issues
about the java trademark then lets do that. It is also more clear and
fair to our users. We don't want them to think of GNU Classpath as the
same thing as that proprietary implementation that restricts their
rights and gives control on how they can use it to a small cabal.

Cheers,

Mark

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