From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14180 invoked by alias); 9 May 2005 16:19:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact mauve-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: mauve-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14096 invoked from network); 9 May 2005 16:19:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 9 May 2005 16:19:41 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j49GJZ33014665 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 12:19:40 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn50-115.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.115]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j49GJYO23673; Mon, 9 May 2005 12:19:34 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 04A692DD1DE; Mon, 9 May 2005 10:16:56 -0600 (MDT) To: Steven Schwarz Cc: Archie Cobbs , classpath@gnu.org, mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: can Mauve help me test a PersonalJava implementation? References: From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com X-Attribution: Tom Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 16:19:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 Steven> Ok. I used -target 1.1 and that worked to produce class files that Steven> are acceptable to a JDK 1.1.8 VM. Now the problem is that Steven> SimpleTestHarness won't run on a JDK 1.1.8 VM: Steven> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Comparable Yeah, -target N is not that useful if you are using classes that didn't appear in that release. (This is something we could teach the free systems to warn about :-) Steven> If I go to the labor of crafting a replacement for SimpleTestHarness Steven> that confines itself to 1.1 APIs, will I also find that there are Steven> individual tests for which the subject of the test is a 1.1 API (and Steven> therefore the test earns the JDK1.1 tag) but the way the test is Steven> written drags in 1.2 - 1.5 APIs for the test verification? Probably. Those are bugs, though. Steven> I come back to my original question: are people out there really using Steven> the current Mauve with PersonalJava (or JDK 1.1) implementations? Not that I know of. Tom