Merge checked in

Tue Jan 9 20:41:00 GMT 2007

Tom Tromey wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>> I've checked the big gcj-eclipse branch merge into svn trunk.
> This brings in many changes -- we now use a version of the Eclipse
> compiler to process .java files; we removed jv-scan and gcjh
> (replacing the latter with gjavah); we now support all 1.5 language
> and runtime features.

Cool! Some small questions to that:
- Will the development now continue on the trunk or on the gcj-eclipse 
branch and be merged from time to time?
- What classpath version is used? Was 0.93 imported or a newer 
subversion checkout?
- What's the state of the current Java 1.5 library? The latest I heard 
was that the 1.4 library is pretty complete (but I didn't keep in touch).
> For best results you will want to download an 'ecj' jar. We've set
> things up so that if there is an ecj.jar in the top level source tree,
> then the build will install this jar and a usable 'ecj1' executable
> that uses it.

What is it needed for? What happens without it?
thanks
Marco