Re: Missing tools.jar

Hello Thomas,

+++ Thomas Cort [22/11/05 17:40 -0500]:
> There are some packages (ant, jedit, etc) that need tools.jar. I was
> wondering if/when sable would provide a tools.jar? I found that using
> tools.jar from the sun-sdk worked to build ant, but it'd be nice if I
> had a free software solution. I checked the archive and found that
> "this should be fixed by the end of April [2005]."
> http://sablevm.org/lists/sablevm-user/2005-March/000254.html

Yes, we will provide tools.jar, this did not change.  SableVM SDK already
includes most of what we need, besides ECJ.  And a javac compiler is (in our
experience) the most commonly used element of tools.jar, so we do need one.

For the timeline - we need to release SableVM with updated class library ASAP
because it's just been way too long since the last release.  Then we want to
get back to regular releases with regular class library updates and with
incremental improvements in functionality.

So far we've had only one SableVM SDK release and it took really weeks of
work to put it all together for that release.  It should be easier now to
make new improvements, but from the experiences (read: problems we've
encountered later and/or users found) there's also some work to be done
within SableVM SDK build system.  This build system is kind of weird, but it
allows you to mostly drop in new components in place from upstream sources
w/o modifying them too much. :-)

There's also plenty of new features of SableVM JVM that are waiting to be
integrated into the main tree.  It looks like this won't happen if I don't
put my hands into it, so...  I will have to :)

> Thanks for all of the hard work that goes into sable. It's great!

Thank you for the good word (on behalf of all people working on improving
SableVM - ATM about a dozen IIRC).

Cheers,

		Grzegorz B. Prokopski

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