On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:53:42 +0200 Raphaël Quinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > it has less installation dependencies than gridarta, > > > > > Wrong. It depends on GTK and Perl. Gridarta depends on 1.6 JRE. I > > don't see how it would in any way imply "less dependencies". > > Sorry, I should have said "it has less dependencies for Free Software > users". Gridarta depends on the Sun JRE 6, which is currently > non-free. I know that many users do not care about the details of the > license, but I do. Fortunately, the JRE will soon be really free, but > we still have to wait a bit. Well, I'd like to note that actually, a Free Software Java 6 JRE does exist today in the form of IcedTea6. It is available in Ubuntu (see http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/interpreters/openjdk-6-jre) and Fedora. I've been using IcedTea6 myself for little while and have had no issues including in usage with Gridarta (in fact, memory consumption seems slightly lower for some reason but I'm not completely certain). In addition at least the Fedora build does pass Sun's Java Test Compatibility Kit. So in other words, we do actually have Free Java 6 today. As far as bringing another editor in, my stance is mostly neutral however I don't think it would do much good. Alex Schultz _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
