classpath-0.98 merge for GCC-4.4

Mon Aug 11 15:39:00 GMT 2008

Andrew Haley schrieb:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>> Ideally, I'd prefer a GCJ release to be based on a Classpath
>> release, if just so bug reports against GCJ 4.4 can be more
>> closely linked to a Classpath release.
>> Me too.
>>> That said, I think the tree is in okay shape at the moment. If
>> you do merge now, I'd suggest using the time to test the
>> completed merge, especially the new locale changes.
>> Yes.
>>> As a third option, perhaps the main merge could be done now,
>> covering all the feature changes (GJDoc, localisation). I
>> could then submit the remaining bug fixes planned for 0.98 to
>> GCJ separately, as they get sent to Classpath. We'd then end
>> up with 0.98 in GCJ (effectively).
>> That's my suggestion, as long as it doesn't make too much work
> for Doko.

I can start working on this on a merge branch. But being on a conference I'm not
sure that I will finish this before my vacation until the end of August. In the
past Joshua did offer to do a merge as well. Joshua, would you be able to work
on this merge as well?
 Matthias