In case you missed it, 4.0 is the stable branch. From the number of
people contributing to it, you might guess how large the interest for
it is. I'm not using it, Mike's not using it, so if you want to become
the maintainer and invest the time, be my guest. The only branch that
sees a bit of active development is 2.0 which is what the Apple people
use internally.
And in case you also missed it: Mike's not using 5.4, I'm not using
5.4, both for pretty good reasons. So even *having* a 5.4 build right
now is mainly us trying to be nice people. But we will not go out of
our way if people want to build and run on platforms we don't use and
can't test.
Case in point here was a that Ulrich (unintentionally) broke (part of)
the launch classpath and we are discussing ways to do better than just
fix it, possible by a rewrite of the launcher. The core of the problem
is that in WO, the CP is used for way too many things, model loading,
framework init order, class discovery, resource discovery, property
loookup etc.
Therefore I'd suggest we go the launcher road, with some extra flags
in Info.plist, like the path and init order of the linked frameworks.
Their Info.plist could hold their linked jars and frameworks in turn,
thus more closely modeling what Eclipse does when starting up. It also
opens the way to safer patching, as - sorry Pierre - I'm still
convinced we'll need it.
Cheers, Anjo
Am 13.11.2007 um 01:17 schrieb Lachlan Deck:
> On 13/11/2007, at 5:04 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>
>>> Why not fix project Wonder? Instead of this class mangling we
>>> could make Project Wonder not override core classes and things
>>> would be a lot simpler. What do you need in Wonder to make this
>>> happen?
>> Having Project Wonder not override core classes would just break
>> the things that PW fixes. Most of the reasons for doing this in
>> Wonder may be fixed in 5.4 (generic NS*, etc), but I suspect the
>> vast majority of users are not using 5.4, so we can't just remove
>> support for them.
>
> But you could of course create a stable branch for current users...
> and then start down this road.
>
> with regards,
> --
>
> Lachlan Deck
>
>
>
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