Re: [Jamvm-general] What's the status of jamvm 1.6.0?

[Robert L. <rob...@gm...>]

Hi Thomas,

In the past JamVM only worked with GNU Classpath, and I made regular
releases to tie in with that.  However, since 2010, JamVM development
has mainly focused on OpenJDK support.  The IcedTea project (which
packages JamVM and OpenJDK) does not rely on releases as they
periodically take a snapshot from git.

Having said that, I have since discovered that IcedTea would also
prefer to work with "official" releases.  So I do want to go back to a
release model.  I have just finished OpenJDK 8 support so now seems a
good time to do a release.  There have also been many bugs fixed, and
tightening of standards compliancy which will also affect GNU
Classpath.  However, before I do a release I have to test with Mauve
(GNU Classpath test suite).  I mostly run with OpenJDK now, so I need
to ensure that the OpenJDK work hasn't broken anything with GNU
Classpath.  My intention was to do this over the weekend, so hopefully
if no problems show up there should be a new release in a couple of
days.

Rob.



On 7 May 2014 19:24, Thomas De Schampheleire <pat...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know the current status of jamvm 1.6.0 development.
> The last release of jamvm was 1.5.4, dating from 2010.
> It seems that there still is ongoing development in the git tree at
> http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jamvm, but no release has been
> made in the mean time.
> Is there a particular reason why there haven't been any releases since
> 1.5.4, not even in the 1.5.x series?
>
> I'm a contributor to Buildroot [1], an embedded Linux build system,
> which contains jamvm 1.5.4. One of our users provided a patch to make
> jamvm build on big-endian MIPS [2], but I now learned about the 1.6.0
> development that already builds on big-endian MIPS.
>
> We could start using a git revision in Buildroot, but using a released
> version is much preferred.
> Is there any change of making a release soon, even a release candidate
> or the like?
>
> Thanks for your feedback,
> Thomas
>
> [1] http://www.buildroot.org
> [2] https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=7010
>
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