Kiev patchs (fwd)

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From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Fri Jan 29 1999 - 16:34:52 EST


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> Subject: Kiev patchs
> To: max@immsp.kiev.ua
> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:33:59 -0800 (PST)
> Cc: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs)
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> Maxim,
>
> From the emails I've seen, I think what Godmar and Alexandre
> said is exactly right. Namely,
>
> - The goal of kaffe is to be a JVM.
> - There's no such thing as "rejection" in the open source world.
>
> Patches to enhance the JVM to support something that is beyond
> the goals of the kaffe project are simply not consistent with
> what we're trying to acomplish.
>
> You could very well argue that we should change the goals for kaffe
> -- and that's certainly a valid debate. But it's a different debate
> from whether these patches should be committed now. The answer to
> the latter question is more or less agreed upon by all of us. At
> least, until we've had time to agree that the goals need changing.
>
> Moreover, it's pretty easy to maintain a separate set of patches.
> This is what I do whenever I want to change something but am not
> ready to commit it yet. Just use CVS to checkout the tree and
> make your modifications. Every time you "cvs update" your modifications
> will be merged with the latest sources.
>
> If you're really interested in getting this stuff into kaffe, then
> we should be discussing what the goals of kaffe are and whether they
> need changing. And kaffe@rufus.w3.org is the appropriate place for
> this discussion. However, as you know, for many people it won't be
> an easy sell.
>
> -Archie
>
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