hello?

Fri Oct 9 14:33:00 GMT 1998

> Further if we want to use the Sun classes from a particular
> JDK reference release (pure java, i.e. no native code involved) then
> we are on our own and good luck to us. Correct?

Yes.
> Are you targeting the gcj fundamental classes to be consistent with a
> particular Java release, either 1.0 or 1.1?

Not really. Highest priority are the 1.0 things documented in the
Language Spec, plus whatever 1.1isms (such as Reader and Writer
classes) and 1.2isms make sense.
> Do you plan to support 
> JNI and RMI when you have a release that generates executables?

At some point. Not in the first release.
> I assume Cygnus will gladly take "clean" source code for the
> standard libraries required for consistency with Java 1.2. Correct?

I don't know. We may prefer not to, or consider the patches
on a case-by-case basis.
	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner