>>>>> "PJ" == PJ Cabrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PJ> And a big problem it is. If we go with GNU Classpath as the basis of PJ> the Harmony API, AWT and Swing will depend on GTK+ 2.4 being installed PJ> on OSX, through DarwinPorts or Fink. There is nothing stopping anybody from writing peers that work on Mac OS X, Windows, or anything else. We already have somebody working on Qt-based peers. We would welcome other peer implementation in Classpath -- it is just that nobody has volunteered to do it. PJ> In my not so humble opinion, SwingWT is a better alternative, as it PJ> uses SWT to implement Swing. There's also nothing preventing an AWT peer implementation based on SWT :-) PJ> This is just the top usability problem when trying to build and run PJ> SableVM and GNU Classpath on OSX the other day. There are build PJ> problems still to be resolved "the right way" (I just hacked the PJ> makefiles to get it to build, and had to use Fink to get many of the PJ> requirement packages, as they weren't part of the base OSX full dev PJ> tools install.) Did you try disabling the gtk peers? Portability fixes (for the build or for the JNI code or whatever) are also welcome. Tom
