2010/1/7 Clemens Eisserer <linuxhi...@gmail.com>: > By the way ... > >>> The "Jules" cairo pisces replacement obviously isn't all that useful >>> without the backend .. is it likely the required cairo modifications >>> would ever make it into linux distros ? If not I'm not sure its >>> worth putting the java glue code into openjdk. > > Wouldn't it be possible to put the backend itself into OpenJDK? > There's already a quite a lot of 3rd party code in OpenJDK, would one > more hurt that much? >
Which then has to be maintained with regard to security updates, etc. IcedTea pulls out the in-tree libjpeg, libpng and zlib libraries and uses the system ones to avoid this issue. Can't it be made to work with the system cairo? > Even for MaskBlit's, it usually does a lot better than pisces. (with > some exceptions that can be fixed for sure) > > Thanks, Clemens > -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
