Hi all, by now you might know that I've had a meeting with Mark Wielaard from GNU Classpath to discuss further integration of Classpath's class library into kaffe. I've also met with other Classpath hackers to discuss the advancement of GNU Classpath. It was all very exciting, and I wish that the next such meeting in October in Saarbruecken will attract more developers from kaffe.
A few ideas came out of those meetings, that were summarized by Mark here http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2003-July/043094.html http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2003-07/msg00040.html I'll give you a summary of other things I found interesting over the last couple of days. * Old kaffe versions in BSDs On the RMLL, all the BSD projects were present. I've got an introduction into the BSD ports system, and can now figure out who the maintainer of an out of date package is ;) OpenBSD : 1.0.6 : Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , has patches by pvalchev FreeBSD : 1.0.7 : [EMAIL PROTECTED], no patches NetBSD : 1.0.7nb1: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 3 somewhat strange patches If you are using one those operating systems, please get in touch with the respective maintainer to provide an updated version of kaffe for his system. * Kaffe 1.1.0 and debian Marko Jung from Saarbruecken offered to help with kaffe maintenance in debian to ease the load on Ean. Since 1.1.0 was broken on a few linux platforms, I'll get in touch with him when 1.1.1 is out. The stable version on debian is 1.0.5, which should somehow be resolved. 1.0.5 is *years* behind 1.1.0. I'm not familiar enough with Debian to say what needs to be done or fixed. The current situation casts a bad light on kaffe in debian, though. In fact, there seems to be a call to purge kaffe from the debian distribution. It is marked [REMOVE] on the release critical bug reports. * Kaffe and Worldforge The worldforge developers have a client in java that utilizes OpenGL. They would be interested in running it on kaffe, which means they could help getting open GL bindings for Java to work on kaffe. Beside the 'cool!' effect, having the OpenGL binding working in kaffe would result in an interesting testbed for a openGL based implementation of Graphics2D by GNU Classpath developers. * Kaffe and OpenOffice I've got hold of the e-mail address of the OpenOffice build system developer, who might be able to figure out what remains to be done for kaffe to be useable for an open office build. Apparently all they need is a java compiler, and we already ship kjc. Building OpenOffice might be a good reason to revive ports of kaffe like BeKaffe and merge them back into the kaffe.org tree. Talking to OpenOffice representatives at LinuxTag showed that there was a lot of interest on those platforms without a vendor provided somewhat current java implementation to use something else to build OpenOffice. * Kaffe and Konqueror Once Rob's verifier is finished, we could seriously start working together with free software browsers to provide support for applets in konqueror or mozilla. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get hold of a konqueror developer on LinuxTag, but I'll try to get through to someone. * NIO, NIO, NIO freenet needs nio. sascha brawer needs nio for his font rendering work. everyone seems to need nio these days, and noone has the native bits working yet. I hope that Michael Koch from libgcj is on a good way with his implementation. I'm in touch with Matthew from freenet to see what they exactly need. * OpenEJB I've played a bit with openEJB and got it to load a bit further by making AppClassLoader extend URLClassLoader, until it starts playing reflection games with Sun-specific fields of ClassLoader. Someone could try to persuade the OpenEJB developers not to do such embarassing things in public. ;) so much for the big stuff I can remember off the top of my head. cheers, dalibor topic __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
