fitzsim’s development log

I submitted my ecj option parsing patch to Eclipse.

The patch went into Rawhide’s eclipse-ecj last night, which meant I was able to remove the last option munging stuff from java-gcj-compat. Behold:

$ ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin
jar -> /usr/bin/fastjar
java -> /usr/bin/gij
javac -> /usr/bin/ecj
javadoc -> /usr/bin/gjdoc
javah -> /usr/bin/gjnih
rmic -> /usr/bin/grmic
rmiregistry -> /usr/bin/grmiregistry

No wrapper scripts, just direct symlinks. […]

I finished GNU Classpath’s BufferStrategy framework tonight:

Currently there is only one unaccelerated backend that doesn’t actually do anything, but the framework for adding new backends is in place as well as all the necessary documentation.

This patch adds the missing methods that Caolan mentioned in his blog. This is the last GCJ AWT vs. OO.org […]