Re: [Jython-dev] Kaffe

[Mats W. <ma...@la...>]

At 06:02 PM 8/24/2001 +0200, Samuele Pedroni wrote:
 >
 >[Ben Burton]
 >>
 >> Just did a hunt and amongst other
 >> things the actual jython site says (http://www.jython.org/platform.html):
 >>
 >> Kaffe
 >>
 >> Jython does not work with the current version available from transvirtual.
 >> This appears to be both due to some small incompatibilities between this
 >> Java VM and SUN's version, as well as at least one serious issue which is
 >> the lack of a java.math.BigInteger class -- this lack will be a problem
 >> for any VM that only implements the PersonalJava subset of the full Java
 >> spec. It should be possible to get Jython working on this VM if someone
 >> has the time to invest, please let us know if you have any success here or
 >> need any help.
 >>
 >Ooops, but don't expect that to be up to date, I think it's even pre-Jython
 >stuff ... personally I don't have time to play with various VMs and think
 >Finn either, but if someone has new fresh info, then we can refresh the site.


I bet the rest of us can scare up some cycles between us to do
some testing against other JVMs (you and Finn do so much already!),
and supply info on the results.

On the other hand, what's the general impression on whether
this is important?  I just saw some note on IBM's JVM here,
and Ben's done some work on Kaffe, apparently.  I'd be willing
to do a bit of testing there, too.  But then what?  What if
problems are discovered?  Do we just add notes on them saying
"XXX does not appear to work" (period-end-of-story)?

Mats