Re: No VM02 at KFest?

[DaveSchmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com>]

On Jul 23, 7:39 am, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article
> <823ab017-9dc4-4483-aea5-a4d613619...@z34g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
>
>  mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 23, 11:54 am, DaveSchmenk <dschm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > When javac goes traipsing through the directories looking for the
> > > .class files, it will build them from the .java source if it
> > > doesn't find them.  In my makefile (I'm the worst makefile author
> > > in the world) I try to build all the class files up front so that I
> > > can copy them to ProDOS image directory.  I've had a few bugs when
> > > javac would update a class file before the makefile got to it so it
> > > never got copied to the ProDOS image.  Arrggghhh.
>
> > Try using Ant? A bit of simple Java glue for AppleCommander (assuming
> > John hasn't already done it) and you could use AC to build image
> > files straight from the ant build file...
>
> I've added directory support in an interim release, but I still need to
> implement mkdir:
>
> <http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews/applecommander>
>
> IIUC, the vm02 classpath is isomorphic to the ProDOS directory
> structure, so if the classes "Main" and "Answer" are in the package
> "temp":
>
> package temp;
> import apple2.*;
>
> public class Main {
>     public static void main(String args[]) {
>         System.out.println("Hello, world!");
>         System.out.println("Answer: " + Answer.n);
>     }
>
> }
>
> class Answer {
>     static int n = 42;
>
> }
>
> they would go in a directory named /TEMP:
>
> DISK=java.2mg
> CLASSPATH=.:/Users/Shared/vm02/src
>
> Main: Main.java
>     javac  -cp ${CLASSPATH} Main.java
>     ac -d ${DISK} /temp/Main
>     ac -p ${DISK} /temp/Main bin < Main.class
>     ac -d ${DISK} /temp/Answer
>     ac -p ${DISK} /temp/Answer bin < Answer.class
>
> Similarly, the classes in the package org.vm02.cui would be found in
> /ORG/VM02/CUI.
>
> [...]
> --
> John B. Matthews
> trashgod at gmail dot com
> <http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

My thoughts exactly!

Dave...