| RE: [stellation-res] Database Package Audit. |
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 11:57, Ringo De Smet wrote: > --- "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 15:10, Jonathan Gossage wrote: > > > Have you considered starting to use Java 1.4 so as to get access to > > > the assert feature. It may be the way to go for such situations. It > > > at least provides a simple minded simulation of Design By Contract. > > > > Yes, we have considered it. The main reason that we've postponed > > doing it thus far is that the performance of Stellation is > > dramatically better when using the IBM JDK, and IBM has not publicly > > released their version of 1.4. (I just got the IBM internal > > pre-release of 1.4 last week. I don't know when it will be available > > to non-IBM folks.) Our policy so far has been to avoid using any > > tools that our outside contributors can't use. I don't want to give > > up the performance of the IBM JIT, but I also don't want to be doing > > our work on a version of the JVM that outside users can't run. > > Please stick to the list of supported JVM's for Eclipse itself. > Otherwise you would limit the possibilities of platforms/JVM's that > people can use to run the combination of Eclipse+Stellation! > > Don't forget that some companies have policies about what JVM to use. > You would leave them in the cold if our choice of JVM wouldn't match > the company policy, and it's the last thing I want to do! Don't worry. We are an Eclipse subproject. We will, of course, only be working with JVMs that run Eclipse. If the JVM doesn't run Eclipse, it's useless to us. And we're not planning on restricting what JVMs you can use. I'd just like to make sure that the IBM group doesn't use any tools that the rest of you can't get. (For example, in the recent AspectJ discussion: I'd much rather be using HyperJ. But people outside IBM can't get HyperJ on a reasonable license without a lot of work. So we won't even consider using it.) -Mark -- Mark Craig Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center *** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration *** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation *** Work Email: mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------- Personal Email: markcc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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