On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 20:05 -0400, Thomas DeWeese wrote: > > If so, are there any plans for such a migration? > > The basic problem is that javax.imageio is only available in > JDK 1.4 and higher. Currently Batik target's 1.3 and higher. > However we recently created a source tree for JDK 1.4 specific > classes (only compiled for JDK 1.4 of course). So it might be > possible to add to the current support with this.
That would be great. One of the biggest challenges the Free Software community has is to convince application and library developers to avoid dependencies on Sun's JRE implementation. These dependencies usually take the form of com.sun.* and sun.misc.* package references. But we're slowly making progress... http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathMigration A JDK 1.4 branch of Batik sounds like a good place to lose the Sun dependencies! I've forwarded your note to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, asking for interested parties to help out here. I hope we can make batik run on Free Software platforms soon! AG --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
