2008/1/23, Renick Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anselm> Is IcedTea based on the Sun source code? > > http://iced-tea.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions > > " What is IcedTea? > > "Not all of the source code that makes up the JDK is available under > an open-source license. In order to build an OpenJDK binary from > source code, you must first download and install one or more of the > following files from which the build process will copy over 'binary > plugs' for these encumbered components." (from > http://openjdk.java.net/) > > IcedTea is a build harness for the OpenJDK that provides stubs and GNU > Classpath replacements for the encumbered binary plugs, and allows the > OpenJDK to be bootstrapped against GCJ. It is not a fork of the > OpenJDK, and doesn't contain the OpenJDK source code."
Should be the default build harness for Sun OpenJDK if they want to be a bit more open source serious. > > Someone brought up this post below with regards to this issue. I lack > enough skill currently to implement such a solution. Has anyone made a > patch for dwm along these lines? Maybe I've overlooked it: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/1790 Ok, java and its siblings are messes to maintain. Nothing new. > > Sylvain> Get the java code, try to compile it with 100% open source tools... > > Yeah, obviously I don't really want to be using java. However, I use > SuperCollider (http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/ ) to do realtime > audio stuff. On Linux, SwingOSC is the only way to use GUI code > written by people on Macs or Windows. To be able to play with other > people's work, and for them to be able to use mine, I'm stuck with > SwingOSC for the moment. I'd like to have an alternative (and may > eventually write it myself), but in the meantime I still want to be > able to play with that GUI code while using dwm. http://trolltech.com/products/qt http://www.gtk.org/ http://www.pygtk.org/ http://ruby-gnome.sourceforge.net/ http://ubuntustudio.org/ http://www.linuxaudio.org/ > > Icedtea seems like the most ethical choice, and it was already > packaged as well. Too bad it doesn't seem to solve the issue. So, > again, any suggestions? Patch java and/or Code in C. > > Renick > > -- > Renick Bell > http://the3rd2nd.com I don't think java and its siblings will have room on suckless.org because: "Dedicated to software which sucks less. Home of wmii, dwm, libixp, and other quality software with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality."
